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Korean ambassador to the United States speaks at BYU Monday, March 19

His Excellency Lee Tae-sik, Korean ambassador to the United States, will address “Korea-U.S. Relations” at Brigham Young University Monday, March 19, at 3 p.m. in 238 Herald R. Clark Building.

Admission will be free, and the public is welcome.

Lee has served in his current position since November 2005. Over the course of four decades, he has been an international diplomat representing Korea in Liberia, the Philippines, Austria, Yugoslavia, Israel, the United Kingdom and Belgium. Lee has also worked as director-general of the International Trade Bureau at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, deputy executive director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization and deputy foreign minister.

This lecture will be archived online. For more information on David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies events, see the calendar online at kennedy.byu.edu.

Writer: Lee Simons

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Photo by Mark A. Philbrick/BYU Photo

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