DISPATCHES Vol 65 No 13 | SOUTH KOREAAFRICA At its summit, Seoul gets critical mineral deal but no debt accord 11th June 2024 South Korea has refused to accept many key demands from African leaders at summit that marked its first real attempt at building ties with the continent South Korea became the latest Asian state to make a pitch for African influence at a summit attended by 25 other heads of state and government from Africa in Seoul last week. READ FOR FREE
Vol 55 No 3 | SOUTH KOREAAFRICAASIA Big plans for 2014 31st January 2014 Despite recent missteps, South Korea's engagement with Africa will increase this year and move beyond natural resources to embrace information technology, communications and markets New efforts by the Seoul government and by South Korea's private companies aim to widen cooperation with its African partners this year. These new initiatives follow a series of mi...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 10 | SOUTH KOREA Kang Chang-hee 25th July 2013 Speaker, National Assembly, South Korea National Assembly Speaker Kang Chang-hee made his first trip to Africa in July and spent 13 days in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. In Dar es Salaam, the government of President Jaka...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 9 | MALAWISOUTH KOREA Seoul says no to youth export 2nd July 2013 South Korea ends speculation on the matter and begins to investigate Yoon Choong-sup, the man behind the plan South Korea is adamant that it did not and will not authorise the arrival of some 100,000 young Malawian workers, as announced by President Joyce Banda and her People’s Party...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 8 | SOUTH KOREAAFRICA Angry envoys 31st May 2013 Seoul is developing new initiatives to bolster its African diplomacy but is inadvertently ruffling feathers with perceived errors in protocol Ahead of the late May visits to Seoul of Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Armando Guebuza of Mozambique, new President Park Geun-hye declared that South Korea must shape it...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 8 | MADAGASCARSOUTH KOREA Seoul food 31st May 2013 South Korean diplomats are working to help Daewoo Logistics regain at least part of a huge land-lease deal the company lost after Madagascar's 2009 coup d'état. In May, Seoul dispa...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 8 | MALAWISOUTH KOREA Youth export palaver 31st May 2013 Parliamentarians were up in arms after hearing that up to 100,000 young Malawians could be soon on their way to work in South Korea’s factories and farms in an effort by government...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 5 | SOUTH KOREA Lee Suk-chae 7th March 2013 CEO, KT Corp, South Korea In early February, Lee Suk-chae, Chief Executive of South Korean telecommunications firm KT (formerly Korea Telecom), indicated that he would be bidding for the 53% stake in Maroc ...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 3 | SOUTH KOREAAFRICA Going strong 15th January 2013 2012 marked a turning point in every sector of South Korea’s ties with Africa – diplomacy, trade, investment and official development assistance South Korean companies are the contractors of choice for African governments but the East Asian country is also expanding its peacekeeping and official development assistance (ODA)...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 3 | SOUTH KOREA Park Geun-hye 15th January 2013 President-elect, South Korea The arrival of Park Geun-hye in power in late February 2013 is likely to signal continuity rather than change in South Korea’s Africa policy. The daughter of former President Park ...