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(Unofficial Translation) Your Excellency President Khurelsukh, Sain baina uu (Сайн байна уу). How are you? Through videoconferencing, I can see you again – three years after our pleasant meeting in 2018 when you visited Korea as Prime Minister. I congratulate you once more on your election in June when you rece...

Sep 10, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Fellow Koreans, residents of Gyeongsangnam-do Province and Geoje citizens, It is my fourth visit to Geoje to lend support for our shipbuilding industry’s revival. My first visit here was to celebrate the maiden voyage of a Korea-built ice-breaking LNG carrier, the first of its kind in t...

Sep 09, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Today, two outside experts are joining us: Senior Researcher Hong Seong-in of the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade and Managing Director Jeong Seok-ju of the Korea Offshore and Shipbuilding Association. Please give a hand to those joining the discussion of today’s agend...

Sep 06, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) It is such a pleasure as well as meaningful to have Speaker Park Byeong-seug and Deputy Speakers Kim Sang-hee and Chung Jin-suk along with the standing committee chairpersons of the 21st National Assembly here at Cheong Wa Dae for the first time. I extend my personal congratulations to those ...

Sep 03, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Let me begin the 38th Cabinet Meeting. Today, we will deliberate on and set next year’s budget proposal for submission to the National Assembly. As the last of my Administration, this 604.4 trillion won budget has been drawn up to clearly reflect the role the Government has to assume at this ...

Aug 31, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) It is very fortunate that we have been able to safely airlift to Korea the Afghans who helped our country as well as their families. I am proud of the hard work and meritorious service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the military and the other relevant officials who successfully completed ...

Aug 30, 2021

Fellow Koreans, leaders of business ventures, The Republic of Korea is now ushering in an “Era of Overtaking” that will move us beyond our “Era of Pursuit”. Taking the lead in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the post-COVID-19 future, our economy is transforming into a pacesetter from a fast-follower. At the cent...

Aug 26, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Since we attended the P4G Seoul Summit together, I am pleased to see Your Excellency – as if meeting an old friend. Colombia is the only Latin American country that participated in the Korean War. After arriving at the Port of Busan 70 years ago, the troops from the Colombian Battalion distin...

Aug 25, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) - The Return of the General - Fellow Koreans, all Koreans at home and abroad, The Provisional Republic of Korea Government, founded on the spirit of the March First Independence Movement, declared that 1920 was the first year of our war of independence. In that year, a man led troops into tw...

Aug 18, 2021

(Unofficial Translation) Your Excellency President Tokayev, business leaders from Korea and Kazakhstan, We have brought together the major economic players of our two countries who are paving a path toward recovery and reemergence beyond the COVID-19 crisis. Just as the power to fight back against COVID-19 lies in so...

Aug 17, 2021