ICAS Bulletin

Institute for Corean-American Studies, Inc.

October 4, 2016


The Honourable Chong Wook Chung

Ambassador and Vice Chairman
Presidential Committee for Unification Preparation (PCUP)
Republic of Korea

to visit

Philadelphia

October 5, 2016



Dear Friend:

We are pleased to share with you that a Presidential Delegation of Korea will visit Philadelphia on October 5, 2016.

The Delegation led by Ambassador Chong Wook Chung, ICAS Fellow, will include the following members:
Kun Goh, Former Prime Minister of Republic of Korea; Former Mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government

Byung Dae Kim, Director General PCUP

Jae Chun Kim, Member PCUP; Professor Dean Graduate School International Studies Sogang University

Jin Soo Kim, Foreign Affairs and National Security PCUP

Jong Hoon Kim, Senior Advisor KITA; former member National Assembly; former Trade Minister

Joon Kyung Kim, President Korea Development Institute (KDI) and KDI School Public Policy Management;
Former Presidential Secretary in Financial Policy The Blue House

Byoung Sam Koo, Unification Attache Embassy of the Republic of Korea Washington DC

Un Shin, President Institute for National Security Strategy; Former Foreign Press Officer The Blue House; former Ambassador to Pakistan

Chong Wook and his team of Delegation will make a courtesy call (11:30 AM) to Mayor Jim Kenney of City of Philadelphia

. He will then deliver a luncheon remarks* at the International Law Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association - America's first chartered metropolitan bar association - and the occasion (12:00 PM - 1:30 PM) will be held at the law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP.

*A Changing Security Architecture in the Northeast Asia and the US-Korea Alliance in the Next US Administration

The Delegation will also visit the University of Pennsylvania where it will discuss with students and faculty - to be held, 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM, at Perry World House on Locust Walk - on the current Korean Peninsula Issues.

Chong Wook is a member of Presidential National Security Advisory Group. President Geun Hye Park is Chairman of the PCUP.

He was a featured speaker at the ICAS 2011 Spring Symposium (chaired by Synja Kim) and addressed before the ICAS audience on China's Foreign Policy under New Leadership: its Implications on the Korean Peninsula and Washington.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Sang Joo Kim
Senior Fellow & Executive Vice President
ICAS

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