(Unofficial Translation) The Government has partially downgraded its epidemic prevention and control measures in the Seoul metropolitan area effective today. Under the premise that Level 2 social distancing will be maintained more strictly, the Government and experts – after compiling the opinions of people on...

Sep 14, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) I am glad to meet you all. KCDC, the acronym for the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has become the name most trusted and cherished by our people. I wholeheartedly congratulate you on the KCDC’s upgrade to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), a stan...

Sep 11, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) We have convened this 8th Emergency Economic Council meeting in order to protect the lives of our people who are facing severe economic hardships due to the resurgence of COVID-19. At today’s meeting, we will finalize the fourth supplementary budget proposal to be submitted to the Nati...

Sep 10, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Let me begin the 45th Cabinet Meeting. Today, we will make a decision on the government restructuring plan to upgrade the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) and to establish a second vice minister post within t...

Sep 08, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Fellow Koreans, I find it incredibly meaningful to commemorate the first United Nations-designated International Day of Clean Air for blue skies today. It is the first UN international day initiated by the Republic of Korea, and subsequently adopted by consensus at the UN General Assembly...

Sep 07, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Korea’s daily count of newly confirmed COVID-19 cases, which had spiked to somewhere in the 400s, has stayed below 200 for five consecutive days and continues to fall. The spread of infections in the Seoul metropolitan area, the biggest cause for concern, has also dropped significantly. At t...

Sep 07, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) I am glad to meet all of you here with us in person and online. Amid the grave COVID-19 situation, the Government and entire financial sector are pulling together to overcome the economic crisis. Taking it a step further, we are gathered here to usher in the Republic of Korea’s futu...

Sep 03, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Korea’s daily COVID-19 caseload, which had surged into the 400 range, has fallen to the 300s and 200s over the past four days. However, the disease control authorities have determined that it is still too early to consider this as a positive sign of stabilization. A jump in the numb...

Aug 31, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Today, I hope we can sit down and talk together. I am very glad to have leaders from Korea’s Protestant churches here at Cheong Wa Dae. Some of the participants have traveled far despite today’s very bad weather from the typhoon. I believe all of you are joining us out of like-minded concern...

Aug 27, 2020

(Unofficial Translation) Let met begin the 43rd Cabinet Meeting. As COVID-19 is spreading again, the red light has come on not only for our epidemic prevention and control efforts but for our economy. Thanks to our effective disease fighting measures as well as proactive expansionary fiscal policy, Korea is seen ...

Aug 25, 2020