1. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha visited the Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA) on August 18, and had a meeting with KNDA professors, and participants of the program for foreign service officer candidates and the global leadership program.

o Minister Kang said that building the ROK’s diplomatic capacity is more important than anything else to implement people-participated diplomacy that wins public trust, and asked the KNDA to play a central role in producing diplomatic officers with professionalism.

o Minister Kang also made a tour of a consular training center established to produce professional consular officers systematically, and stressed the importance of strengthening education on consular services that bring real benefits to the people.

2. Placing national interests as a top priority, the KNDA will continue to focus its efforts on producing professional diplomatic officers who serve the people and conducting research on the best foreign and security policy.


* unofficial translation