Park Dae-won (박대원)

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  KOICA in Bangladesh, Uzbekistan
  2012/02/25, Source,
  From agricultural development to language training, government aid programs organized by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) are continuing to enhance quality of life and personal growth opportunities for communities in developing countries. A new elementary school in Sadopur Village of Comilla, Bangladesh, was constructed as part of the recent KOICA community development project (photo courtesy of KOICA). In Comilla, Bangladesh, KOICA recently finished a 3.5-million-dollar grant aid project to eliminate poverty in local farming communities and improve living conditions. A handover ceremony and workshop were held on February 13 in Comilla to commemorate the project's close and assess its outcome,...More

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  Out-of-Style Sinchon Bustling Again with Chinese Tourists
  2012/02/04, Source,
  Chinese visitors walk near Ewha Womans University. Until the 1990s, Sinchon district in northwestern Seoul was the "in" place to hang out for young Koreans, but nowadays the Hongik University area is the hip part of town. The Hongik University area which was among the fastest-growing commercial districts in the capital in the 2000s, began to take off after the 2002 Korea Japan World Cup and became known as the center of the city's clubbing scene. The area has now overtaken Sinchon to become the main hangout in northwestern Seoul for trendy people in their 20s and 30s,...More

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  Korea in the world in 2011
  2011/12/31, Source,
  Park Dae-won, president of KOICA (back row, fifth from left) visited a World Vision project site in Ethiopia on December 7 (Photo: Yonhap News). 2011 saw Korea at the forefront of efforts to strengthen the existing framework of international cooperation for the provision of development assistance, disaster relief, and NGO-headed aid programs. From leadership at high-level international conferences to a series of historic summit meetings that saw President Lee Myung-bak become the first Korean head of state to visit Africa, the events of the past year pointed to significant contributions by Korea as a key player in the international community,...More

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  KOICA Global Village marks 1st anniversary
  2011/06/29, Source,
  Park Dae-won, sixth from left, chairman of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), poses with migrant women and workers from developing countries who were appointed volunteer KOICA public relations officers, at the KOICA headquarters in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Wednesday. From left are Phon Vanh from Laos; G. Gina from the Philippines; Hean Senghour from Cambodia; Ho Thi Quyen from Vietnam; Tsedenish Jargal from Mongolia; Chairman Park; Rafael Molina from Peru; Edalkachew Hylegbile from Ethiopia; Hou Sotheavy from Cambodia; Nguyen Thi Hien from Vietnam; Alex from Ethiopia; and Elisa Manuel from the Philippines,...More