Vol 4 (AAC) No 3 | NORTH KOREA Sowing seeds 30th January 2011 President Lee Myung-bak’s brother Lee Sang-deuk met Col...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 3 | SOUTH KOREA Park Young-june 30th January 2011 On 29 December Park Young-june an associate of President Lee Myung-bak and a familiar face in South Korea-Africa relations hosted 13 African ambassadors at the Korea-Africa Round Table Meeting for Promoting Friendship...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 2 | SOUTH KOREAAFRICA Seoul’s new strategy 27th December 2010 Boosting aid The aid rethink is part of President Lee Myung-bak’s efforts to match South Korea’s economic clout with some diplomatic substance...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 2 | SOUTH KOREAAFRICA The Asian aid summit 27th December 2010 President Lee Myung-bak had declared at the G-20 summit (AAC Vol 4 No 1) that South Korea and Japan have a lot in common and that Africa would benefit from joint overseas development assistance (ODA) from the two Asian countries...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 2 | SOUTH KOREA Kim Jae-shin 28th December 2010 Kim has served in the offices of two presidents: Roh Moo-hyun (Assistant Secretary for Foreign Affairs 2006) and President Lee Myung-bak (Secretary 2008-10)...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 1 | SOUTH KOREAAFRICA Stalemate in Seoul 18th November 2010 Given the growing economic ties with South Korea African leaders had high hopes that President Lee Myung-bak’s pledge to make development issues the centre of G-20 concerns would mark a shift in international policy...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 1 | SOUTH KOREAAFRICA Diplomatic wins and aid wobbles 18th November 2010 Lee Sang-deuk brother to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in early October...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 10 | LIBYASOUTH KOREA Gadaffi guns for Seoul's spy 17th August 2010 The first was led by Lee Sang-deuk who is President Lee Myung-bak’s older brother and a ruling party parliamentarian...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 6 | CONGO-KINSHASACHINASOUTH KOREA More multibillion mining contracts for Kinshasa 22nd April 2010 Seoul is not one of Kinshasa’s big aid donors but South Korean President Lee Myung-bak hopes to change that...