'During the [Lee Myung-bak] government efforts in securing energy resources in Africa was one of the top agenda items but those efforts came in below expectations ' Park admits...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 3 |
- SOUTH KOREA
- AFRICA
Outgoing President Lee Myung-bak visited South Africa Congo-Kinshasa and Ethiopia in July 2011 to expand Korea’s engagement with Africa to include sub-Saharan Africa’s least developed countries in what he called ‘win-win Korea-Africa cooperation’...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 3 |
- SOUTH KOREA
The daughter of former President Park Chung-hee (1961-1979) she succeeds her fellow Saenuri Party member President Lee Myung-bak...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 10 |
- SOUTH KOREA
In October 2010 he was appointed Prime Minister by President Lee Myung-bak despite allegations of dodging military service: he avoided conscription in 1972 due to a thyroid gland disorder...
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak prides himself on his government’s resource diplomacy but now a corrupt Cameroonian diamond deal has taken its first political casualties...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 |
- CAMEROON
- SOUTH KOREA
President Lee Myung-bak’s government faces another corruption scandal linked to its African resource diplomacy after a little-known mining company claimed to have made a record-shattering diamond discovery in eastern Cameroon...
This was one of the projects touted as the most promising during South Korean President Lee Myung-bak’s visit to Kinshasa in July when he met President Joseph Kabila...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 9 |
- SOUTH KOREA
- AFRICA
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (aka “Bulldozer”) secured Pyeongchang’s 2018 Winter Olympic bid on his trip to Durban South Africa that began 6 July...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 6 |
- SOUTH KOREA
He returned from Vienna in 2008 to become Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade and soon joined President Lee Myung-bak’s cabinet as Senior Secretary for Foreign Affairs and National Security...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 3 |
- SOUTH KOREA
- AFRICA
In mid-January President Lee Myung-bak dispatched the Choi Young destroyer to rescue a hijacked South Korean ship off the coast of Oman...