Economic policy guidelines for the second half of the year were announced last week. They included government policies aimed at helping people-centered economic initiatives take firm root and reinvigorating the economy. Numerous adverse factors still plague the Korean economy. This is because long-term implementation o...

Jul 23, 2018

The funeral service for the five marines sacrificed in the helicopter crash last week is going to take place today. My heart aches when I think of how enormous the sorrow must be for the bereaved families who lost their loved ones. I pray for the repose of the fallen soldiers, and my deepest sympathy goes out to the...

Jul 23, 2018

I am proud of the National Intelligence Service and all of you as well. Your organization is now changing the fate of the Korean Peninsula and the course of world history. Your organization has played a leading role in making the PyeongChang Olympics a Peace Olympics and enabling the inter-Korean summits and the North ...

Jul 20, 2018

Minister for Communications and Information S. Iswaran, Vice Chairman of the Singapore Business Federation Pek Lian Guan, Chairman of the Korea International Trade Association Kim Young-ju, distinguished business leaders of Korea and Singapore, I am glad to meet you all. I am filled with special emotion to visit Singap...

Jul 17, 2018

Distinguished people of Singapore, ladies and gentlemen, The North Korea-United States summit illuminated the path toward peace. More than anything else, I am grateful to the people and the Government of Singapore for supporting the successful hosting of that historic summit. Singapore is the world-class researcher...

Jul 13, 2018

First of all, I am wholeheartedly grateful to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and the people of Singapore for warmly welcoming me and my delegation. Singapore and Korea have a lot in common. Both countries have achieved astounding economic growth through investment in people and unceasing innovation. Our two countries...

Jul 12, 2018

I am deeply grateful to Prime Minister Modi and the people of India for warmly welcoming me and my delegation. I met with Prime Minister Modi again a year after our meeting at the G20 Summit in Hamburg last July. We feel as if we are old friends since we exchanged posts on social media to commemorate the Internationa...

Jul 10, 2018

Chairman of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry Rashesh Shah, Chairman of the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry Park Yong-man, distinguished business leaders of Korea and India, Namaste! I am pleased to meet you all. My visit to India reminds me of Ladakh where I went trekking 20 years ago...

Jul 09, 2018

July 2, 2018 A life with shorter working hours began yesterday. This will be an important milestone in moving on from being an overworked society to becoming one that values a balance between work and family time. In addition, as seen from examples of other countries such as Germany, reduced working time is the most s...

Jul 02, 2018

Sixty-eight years ago, countless young people in 21 countries opened an atlas. They searched for Korea that was engulfed by the dark clouds of war. They left their families with a promise they would certainly return and tightened their bootstraps.What these brave young people harbored in their hearts was a sense of hum...

Jun 26, 2018