Lee Myung-bak

'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...

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’...

The daughter of former President Park Chung-hee (1961-1979) she succeeds her fellow Saenuri Party member President Lee Myung-bak...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In mid-January President Lee Myung-bak dispatched the Choi Young destroyer to rescue a hijacked South Korean ship off the coast of Oman...