By Lee Jon-young President Yoon Suk-yeol held a summit with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, who is on a state visit to Korea, on Nov. 8 and exchanged views on ways to strengthen bilateral cooperation in the fields of industry, space, and high technology, as well as key international and regional issues. The two leaders praised the steady development of friendly and cooperative relations in various fields between the two countries, which share the universal values of freedom, human rights and the rule of law, and decided to take bilateral relations to a new level next year on the occasion
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and Peru, the Embassy of Peru in Korea is hosting an exhibition on the first floor of Seoul City Hall from November 8 to November 24.
By Lee Jon-young The following article was contributed by Lee Chil-yong, former expert member of the Cultural Heritage Administration to the Diplomacy Journal. –Ed. Buddhist woodcarver Huh Gil-ryang was born in 1953 in Seungju-gun, Jeollanam-do, and learned the basics of woodcarving from teacher Seo Soo-yeon in 1968 at the age of 15, and learned Buddhist painting from teacher Lee In-ho in 1975 at the age of 22. He was absorbed in Buddhist art at an early age and has been working with Buddhist woodcarving for his entire life. He won the grand prize at the 1977 Buddhist Art Exhibition and was ap
By Lee Kap-soo “India is organizing the vibrant Gujarat 2024, when India is going to celebrate its 100th year of independence in 2047,” said Ashwini Kumar, principal secretary of the Urban Development & Urban Housing Department, the Government of Gujarat in India. Delivering the Gujarat presentation held at Lotte Hotel in Seoul on Nov. 7, Ashwini Kumar said, “India is the world's 5th largest economy with the largest working age population, and she is a preferred investment destination. India has consistently outpaced the global GDP growth and is poised to become the third largest economy o
By Lee Kap-soo The following article was contributed by the Embassy of Uzbekistan in Seoul to the Diplomacy Journal.--Ed. For the first time in history, in the capital of Uzbekistan will take place a summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization. The summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) will be held in Tashkent on 8-9 November. Our country has been a member of the organization since November 1992, but this is the first time in the history of independent Uzbekistan and this association that a multilateral summit within the framework of the ECO is being held on Uzbek soil. The
By Kayla Lee LG Electronics hosted the finals of the 2023 Global IT Challenge for Youth with Disabilities (GITC) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from October 24-28. The successful event, held offline for the first time in four years, saw 461 youth with disabilities from 18 different countries compete in a total of six, diverse IT challenges. The challenges included the two-part eTool challenge, a test of participants’ skill creating presentation slides and utilizing spreadsheets; the eLifeMap challenge, an assessment of one’s ability to conduct text and image searches online; the eContent
By Lee Kap-soo Hyundai Motor ASEAN HQ launched the Future Mobility School in collaboration with the UNESCO APCEIU and the South Korean Ministry of Education, expanding the educational program to ASEAN countries, the company said on Nov. 6. The classes have been in session since August for the fall semester of 2023, at a total of 12 schools – three in Indonesia, five in Malaysia and four in Cambodia. The Future Mobility School was first introduced by Hyundai Motor Company and the South Korean Ministry of Education in 2016, and this year, Hyundai Motor ASEAN HQ worked together with the UNESCO AP
By Kim Ji-eun The "Korea-U.S. Space Forum," co-hosted by South Korea and the United States to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the U.S.-ROK alliance, kicked off its two-day schedule on Nov. 6. "Today, the Korea-U.S. partnership is a global comprehensive strategic alliance," said Foreign Minister Park Jin in his remarks at the opening ceremony of the forum at the Grand Hyatt in Seoul on Nov. 6. "Our collaborative efforts are not limited to the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, but extend beyond the Indo-Pacific region and into space." Commenting on the "militarization of space," Park said
By Lee Jon-young President Yoon Suk-yeol held a summit with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar at the Yongsan Presidential Office on November 3 and exchanged views on bilateral relations, ways to strengthen practical cooperation in various fields, and regional and international developments. The President said that as Ireland is a friendship country that shared the universal values of freedom, human rights, and the rule of law during the Korean War, it is significant that Prime Minister Varadkar is visiting Korea this year on the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the two countrie
By Lee Kap-soo The Embassy of Peru in Korea will organize the longest traveling exhibition of Peruvian traditional handicraft “Pucará Bull: Ambassador of the Peruvian Highlands” in the Seoul City Hall from November 8 to 24 with the support of the Metropolitan Government of Seoul. The famous exhibition has already been presented in more than 22 cities around the world, the Embassy of Peru in Korea said. The “Pucará Bulls” constitutes a highly appreciated cultural good, product of the fusion between the Andean and Western cultures. They are normally located on the ceilings of the houses to prote
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