Lee Myung Bak

Bulgaria, South Korea Consider Joint Shipbuilding Project

Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009

Bulgaria's President Georgi Parvanov and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung-bak have discussed the idea for a joint project for building ships for transporting compressed natural gas in the Black Sea. Parvanov and the Bulgarian delegation visited earlier the largest shipbuilding yard in the world – owned by Hyundai Heavy Industries, and located in the city of Ulsan. “This is an idea...

Bulgaria, South Korea Presidents Seal Cooperation

Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009

The formal meeting of the heads of state of Bulgaria and South Korea, President Georgi Parvanov, and President Lee Myung-bak took place in Seoul Monday. Before that, the Bulgarian delegation visited the shipbuilding yard and car manufacturing plant of Hyundai in the city of Ulsan. In addition to President Parvanov, the Bulgarian delegation to South Korea includes Economy Minister Traikov, Culture Minister...

• Bulgarian President on formal visit to South Korea - The Sofia Echo
• Bulgarian State Delegation Starts South Korea Visit - Sofia News Agency

Economic pacts to be signed on Korean leader's visit to Cambodia

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009

Phnom Penh - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak arrived in Phnom Penh Thursday on an official two-day visit focused on economic matters. His visit will strengthen relations and cooperation between the countries, Cambodia's Foreign Ministry spokes...

Korean Prez visit meets Posco hurdle

The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009

Bhubaneswar, Oct. 21: The jinxed Posco plant proposal will hit another roadblock with anti-plant protesters announcing that they would oppose South Korean President Lee-Myung Bak's possible visit to the project site near Paradip port.

South Korea to recognize Vietnam as market economy

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009

Hanoi - South Korean President Lee Myung Bak said Wednesday that his country would recognize Vietnam as a market economy along with taking other steps to upgrade their relationship. Speaking to reporters after meeting Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh...

Second comes right after first!

Gusts of Popular Feeling (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009

This 2006 Time Magazine article about Lee Myung-bak and the greening of Seoul had this quote: Kim Won Bae of KRIHS tells the story of visiting Shanghai and meeting a Chinese urban planner who had a burning question: how many 100-m-high or taller buildings did Seoul have? "I asked her why she asked that," he says. "She was still in the age of triumphalism. Seoul was once in that period...

President Hu Jintao meets ROK, Japanese leaders

Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009

Chinese President Hu Jintao met with President Lee Myung-bak of the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Beijing on Saturday, who are here to attend the second trilateral leaders' meeting.•China, Japan and ROK businessmen urged to jointly cope with financial crisis•China, ROK and Japan pledge to further trilatera

Japanese, South Korean leaders skeptical of North Korea's words on disarmament

Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama say Pyongyang must take 'specific actions' on its nuclear and missile programs before it can get international aid. Japan and South Korea today said North Korean leader Kim Jong-il must put actions ahead of words before his blacklisted nation can receive desperately needed financial and food aid. In a joint news conference...

• SKorea, Japan say no aid until NKorea disarms - Miami Herald
• SKorea, Japan say no aid until NKorea disarms - kansascity.com
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Lee Myung-bak Congratulates Obama On Nobel Peace Prize Award

ROK Drop (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009

I think President Obama was as surprised to win this award as most Americans were to hear that he had won it as well: South Korean President Lee Myung-bak on Saturday congratulated U.S. President Barack Obama on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, saying he will cooperate with Obama in global peace-making. “President Obama winning the [...]

North Korea reverts to form

Asia Times (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009

After a fleeting period of cordiality, North Korea has slammed the door on South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's vision of a "grand bargain" to resolve inter- Korean issues and blasted the United States for a policy of "confrontation" over the North's nuclear program. Diplomats from Seoul and Washington are doing their best to smile through the gloom. - Donald Kirk (Oct 2, '09)...

SKorean leader urges strong army, citing threat

kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009

President Lee Myung-bak said Thursday that South Korea should strengthen its armed forces to cope with a continuing nuclear threat from North Korea despite recent conciliatory gestures.

SKorean leader urges strong army, citing threat

San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009

President Lee Myung-bak said Thursday that South Korea should strengthen its armed forces to cope with a continuing nuclear threat from North Korea despite recent conciliatory gestures.

South Korea seeks to raise developing world's profile for G20

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009

Seoul - South Korea plans to invite African nations and other developing countries to the Group of 20 (G20) summit it is hosting at the end of next year, President Lee Myung Bak said Wednesday. The group of the world's 20 largest economies would disc...

South Korea nuclear proposal "ridiculous": North media

Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009

SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea's state media rejected a proposal by South Korean president Lee Myung-bak for a fresh deal to end its nuclear arms programme in return for massive aid, which he called possibly Pyongyang's last chance at survival.

First Ladies At G20 Summit In Pittsburgh

DailyFun4u (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009

Barack and Michelle Obama Barack and Michelle Obama greeting their guests Dmitry and Svetlana Medvedev upon arrival in Pittsburgh U.S. and Russian Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev with their wives, Michelle and Svetlana French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy upon arrival in Pittsburgh French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper...