An odd thing happened between South Korea and the U.S. after President Lee Myung-bak proposed a “grand bargain” of security guarantees and economic aid to North Korea in exchange for the scrapping of its nuclear weapons program. The proposal was made in a speech at the Korea Society in New York dur
Korea has been selected to host the next Group of 20 summit in November next year. During the third G20 summit in Pittsburgh, Korea was named host country of the 2010 summit as well as the announcement that the forum would now become an annual event. Until now the G20 has only been a provisional me
The G20 Meeting will be held in Korea in November 2010. This will be the biggest ever international diplomatic event in the nation’s 5,000-year history. This month’s issue contains a story about Korea’s hosting of the G20 Meeting next year as well as expected agendas for the meeting. A sharp drop i