1. Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha, who is on a visit to Japan from December 19 to 20, visited the Korean Cultural Center in Japan on the afternoon of December 19. She took a look around booths to promote the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, and the “ROK-Japan exchange photo exhibition in celebration of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games,” being held inside the Cultural Center.

2. Minister Kang wrote a message expressing hope that the PyeongChang Winter Olympics will become a festival of peace and prosperity, and a significant opportunity to promote friendship and exchanges between the ROK and Japan, expecting that the two countries will advance their relations, including by increasing people-to-people exchanges through the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Summer Games.


* unofficial translation