Envoy to speak on Obama’s Asia policy

U.S. Ambassador to Korea Sung Kim will speak on U.S. policy on the Northeast Asia and the Korea-U.S. alliance at a forum Wednesday.

The conference, the Foreign and Trade Policy Symposium, is organized by the Asia-Pacific Policy Research Institute, a private think tank.

Kim’s dinner speech will be followed by discussions by panelists including Kim Kyu-hyun, ambassador for performance evaluation at the Foreign Ministry, and Sohn Jie-ae, CEO of Arirang TV.

It will be held at Yonsei University at 5 p.m. For more information call (02) 720-8784~5.

(yoonmi@heraldcorp.com)