By Diplomacy Journal Lee Jon-young Incheon Metropolitan City announced that Incheon City Mayor Yoo Jung-bok met with Acting U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea Joseph Yun at the Incheon Global Campus Operations Foundation Support Center on March 26. Acting Ambassador Joseph Yun was appointed in January 2025 and has served as Special Representative for North Korea Policy at the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia, and Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. Mayor Yoo Jung-bok welcomed the appointment o
By Diplomacy Journal Kayla Lee Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Korea Dmytro Ponomarenko and the Ukrainian Economic Mission met with Incheon City Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok at Incheon City Hall on March 24 to discuss cooperation. The meeting was aimed at expanding economic exchanges and laying the groundwork for practical cooperation between Incheon and Ukraine. The Ukrainian economic mission consisted of government officials from the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, including Iryna Tsymbal, chairman of the President Yushchenko Foundation, and Viktoriia Parchevska, Chief Specialist of I
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo Incheon Metropolitan City Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok received Charge d'Affaires Mohammed Mustafa Juma Almuntafeky of the Republic of Iraq to the Republic of Korea, at City Hall on March 11 and discussed cooperation. The meeting was held at the request of the Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Seoul, and the two sides discussed ways to expand economic exchanges and mutual development between Incheon and major Iraqi cities. “Iraq is a resource-rich country with the world's fourth-largest crude oil reserves, and Incheon is home to Korea's leading free economic zone,” sai
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo Mayor Yoo Jung-bok of the Incheon Metropolitan City received the Ambassador of the Republic of Uzbekistan to Korea Alisher Abdusalomov at Incheon City Hall on Feb. 24. The meeting was held at the request of the Uzbek ambassador to Korea and was organized to discuss exchange and cooperation between Incheon and Uzbekistan. At the meeting, Mayor Yoo said, “Incheon is strengthening various international cooperation to become a global top 10 city.” “We need cooperation in various fields such as economy, logistics, and culture between Incheon, which has the world's b
By Diplomacy Journal Lee Kap-soo Incheon City Mayor Yoo Jung-bok met with Peruvian ambassador to Korea Paul Fernando Duclos Parodi to discuss cooperation at the reception room of Incheon City Hall on April 1. The meeting was held at the request of the ambassador, who discussed the appointment of Peru as the country’s honorary consul in Incheon and ways to cooperate in economic and cultural fields. "Peru is hosting the APEC Leaders' Meeting for the third time this year, after 2008 and 2016," said Ambassador Duclos Parodi. "We are looking forward to hosting the APEC Leaders' Meeting in Korea nex