Symposium offers insight into peace on Korean Peninsula

The following is a congratulatory message from Korea Times Publisher-President Lee Chang-sup to the ICAS Fall Symposium which was held by the Institute for Corean-American Studies (ICAS) in partnership with the Heritage Foundation and The Korea Times in Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. -- ED.

Lee Chang-sup President-publisher of The Korea Times

I want to take this opportunity to extend my greetings to Synja P. Kim, ICAS president; Sang Joo Kim, ICAS vice president, and to the distinguished speakers, and the great discussants.

All of you are familiar names to Koreans and particularly to our readers.

The Korea Times is very pleased to support this Corean-American Studies Symposium being held at the Heritage Foundation, ahead of the 65th anniversary of The Korea Times on November 1.

The Korea Times was Korea’s first English daily. We published the 20,000th edition of our paper on April 3 of this year, marking a landmark in the history of our newspaper.

We feel certain that our readers will greatly benefit from your expertise and your insightful discussions of timely topics of importance. Your discussions will be featured in our anniversary special edition on November 2.

I am sure that your professional and impartial policy views will be a great stimulant to the strengthening of the Korea-U.S. alliance and to the promotion of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and in North East Asia.

The Korea Times plans to support a similar conference each year in search for a lasting friendship with the United States and a better future for the Korean Peninsula.

We express our appreciation to ICAS and the Heritage Foundation, and all the participants.