Vol 55 No 3 | SOUTH KOREAAFRICAASIA Big plans for 2014 31st January 2014 '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 KOREAAFRICA Going strong 15th January 2013 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 Park Geun-hye 15th January 2013 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 Kim Hwang-sik 31st July 2012 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...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 | CAMEROONSOUTH KOREABRIEFING The big diamond scam 10th February 2012 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 | CAMEROONSOUTH KOREA Diamond dealers 5th October 2011 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...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 12 | CONGO-KINSHASASOUTH KOREA Water and copper under the bridge 5th October 2011 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 KOREAAFRICA The Bulldozer arrives 13th July 2011 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 Kim Sung-hwan 15th April 2011 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 KOREAAFRICA Building without BRICs 30th January 2011 In mid-January President Lee Myung-bak dispatched the Choi Young destroyer to rescue a hijacked South Korean ship off the coast of Oman...