Diplomacy President Yoon meets with IEA Director General Fatih Birol
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Jon-young President Yoon Suk-yeol met with International Energy Agency (IEA) Director General Fatih Birol at the Yongsan Presidential Office on Sept. 2. Birol is in Korea to attend the World Climate Industry Expo (September 4-6, Busan, Korea), which is jointly organized by the Korean government and the IEA. The IEA is an international organization in the field of energy founded in Paris in October 1974 as a joint response to the energy crisis following the first oil crisis in 1973, and has 45 member and associate member countries that account for 75% of the world's ene