VO: ASEAN media learn about ASEAN-RoK partnership
INTRO: 29 media representatives from 10 ASEAN countries and the ASEAN secretariat visited the ASEAN-Korea Centre aiming to learn more about the Asean-Korea Centre's role in promoting Asean-RoK partnerships in various sectors.
STORY: Three Media representatives from Laos, Lao National Television, Vientiane Times and National Radio were among twenty-nine media personnel from Asean member countries visiting Korea from 2..to 2… of October, the ….. day visit was part of the 2016 Asean media people's visit to the RoK aiming for the participants to learn more about the Asean-Korea Centre's role in promoting Asean-RoK partnerships in various sectors.
In his welcoming remark, Secretary General of the ASEAN-Korea Centre, Kim Young-sun stated that the Centre is an intergovernmental organization between ASEAN member countries and the Republic of Korea with aims to promote exchanges among the people of Korea and the people of the ten ASEAN member countries.
According to him, since its inauguration on 13th March 2009, the year which ASEAN and RoK celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Dialogue Partnership with a broad mandate to “Increase Trade Volume, Accelerate Investment Flows, Invigorate Tourism, and Enrich Cultural and People to People Exchanges” between ASEAN and the Republic of Korean.
Interview: Kim Young-sun, Secretary General of the ASEAN-Korea Centre ….. English….
The Secretary General of the ASEAN-Korea Centre, Kim Young-sun, said adding that, with the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community, engaging the private sector is important for the development and strengthening of the ASEAN-Partnership.
Interview: Kim Young-sun, Secretary General of the ASEAN-Korea Centre ….. English….
Later on, the ASEAN media representatives met with Korean journalists to exchange knowledge on various situations in the ASEAN and Korea, so to have a better understanding of each other’s countries so to better have the knowledge when reporting on ASEAN issues and its member countries.
The 2016 ASEAN Media People’s Visit to Korea is an exchange program supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government Republic of Korea that brings media representatives from all 10 ASEAN countries to the RoK with the theme “The Past, Present and Future of ASEAN-RoK Political-Security Cooperation.”

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