Lee Myung-bak

President Lee Myung-bak’s brother Lee Sang-deuk met Col...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

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...

Lee Sang-deuk brother to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak met Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in early October...

The first was led by Lee Sang-deuk who is President Lee Myung-bak’s older brother and a ruling party parliamentarian...

Seoul is not one of Kinshasa’s big aid donors but South Korean President Lee Myung-bak hopes to change that...