 My name is Victor Chah. I'm a senior advisor and career chair here at CSIS, as well as a professor at Georgetown University. And on behalf of CSIS and Global Peace Foundation, we want to welcome you here this morning to our discussion on the United States, South Korea and civil society cooperation in global humanitarian development. That's a long title for an event, but yeah. So, you know, one of the reasons why we're interested in this particular area is that international development really is an area that sort of epitomizes the history of the U.S.-Korea relationship. As many of you know, Korea could not have become what it is today without development assistance, without the partnership with USAID and without the Peace Corps. And today, Korea has turned from being an international donor recipient to being a donor provider. It's celebrating, I believe this year, its fifth year as a DAC country, OECD DAC country. It's one of the few countries that is actually increasing its development assistance budget these days. And next to the U.S. Peace Corps, it has one of the largest Peace Corps operations in the world, operating in all sorts of conflict areas related to health, infrastructure, building human capacity. So it's really an amazing story of partnership between the United States and Korea that we wanted to talk about today. And in particular, how to move the partnership forward with the signing of this MOU between Koika and the Peace Corps. So we're very excited about this. We're very happy to have all of you here today. We're happy to have Peter Redmond here from Peace Corps. Thank you so much for joining the team, for joining us this morning. I'm now going to introduce our co-partner in all of this work, Mike Marshall, from the Gold Peace Foundation, to offer some initial remarks. So, Mike. Thank you, Victor. And good morning, everybody. I'd like to welcome you here on behalf of the Global Peace Foundation, and thank you for coming. I'd particularly like to thank Victor, Ellen Kim, and all the CSIS team for working together with us to put this series of forums together. The series is taking a new look at aspects of Korean unification and Korea's changing place in the world. This is the second of five joint forums. So I hope you will follow the subsequent ones, which will be coming up in future months on Russia, China, and Japan, and their roles in the region. The Global Peace Foundation is a relatively young organization. We are an international nonprofit that is committed to exploring and promoting innovative values-based approaches to peace building and development. We're active in the U.S. and Korea, as well as 13 other countries, mostly in the developing world across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, promoting initiatives for community development and the seeds of national transformation. Our founder and chairman, Dr. Hyunjin Preston Moon, last year wrote and published a book in Korea that is called The Korean Dream, A Vision for a United Korea. It's caused quite a stir there, created a lot of interest, won a Publishers Award as Book of the Year from the Readers News. The book covers a wide range of issues related to Korean unification and the broader Northeast Asia region. It examines the new regional economic and security opportunities in the light of the changing geopolitical context. Of interest to today's topic, it highlights the role of civil society organizations in building bridges among the nations and among the peoples of the region and ultimately as a key component of any future unification process. Most of all, the book creates a new framework for thinking about Korean unification in terms of the Korean identity formed through the long span of Korean history and the principles and values that have informed that history. Those of you who are familiar with Korean cultural history will know the concept of Hongik Ingang, for example. Such a framework has the potential to transcend the current divided politics of South Korea and the divided ideology of North and South, the product of a mere 70 years of relatively recent history. The book and the Global Peace Foundation are committed in the existing political and diplomatic stalemate on the Korean Peninsula to exploring new approaches to unification and to the Northeast Asia region's future. That is the purpose of this series of forums. Today, we will look at the role of humanitarian aid and civil society organizations in the development of the region as well as globally. Koika, of course, does not deal directly with North Korea or unification issues. Nevertheless, Korea's growing global role as a donor nation and its recognition of the importance of humanitarian aid is an important part of the new context being shaped in the Northeast Asia region that will ultimately provide the framework in which unification can occur. I look forward to hearing the remarks of the President of Koika, Dr. Kim Young Mook, and to an informative discussion to follow. Thank you very much indeed. Thank you, Mike. And now let me introduce our featured speaker for this morning, Mr. Kim Young Mook, who, as Mike said, is currently President of the Korea International Cooperation Agency, otherwise known as Koika, K-O-I-C-A. As Korean overseas official development assistance grows, as well as the expectations of the international community, Koika is working hard to join in the mainstream of international development efforts. Ambassador Kim and his role as president promotes the concept of inclusive partnership, which is also emphasized in the MDGs, the post-2015 development agenda, and the Pusan partnership. Ambassador Kim is expanding the role of Koika as a platform for diverse public, private players, as well as stakeholders. As many of you here from Washington and New York know, he was a career diplomat for 35 years and served post in Africa, the United Nations, Iran, and the United States. Having specialized in ROK-US bilateral relations and global issues throughout his career, Ambassador Kim has participated widely in the policymaking and execution of security and economic agendas. He has also participated in a number of negotiations with North Korea, along with the US and multilateral delegations on North Korea's nuclear program. He assumed a leading role within the Korea Peninsula Energy Development Organization, otherwise known as KEDO, as deputy executive director for both policy and the Nuclear Power Plant Project. During his career, Ambassador Kim has worked intensively with the private sector, corporation, media, NGOs on trade, economic development, and culture. So it's our distinct pleasure this morning to welcome President Kim for his remarks. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. I'm so honored and pleased to be with you this morning. This may be the first time that Korea intends what it's doing for global development in Washington. Washington is a little bit remote capital, from our point of view, because we're working mostly in developing countries. Anyway, thank you so much for the excellent arrangement and hospitality and your attention, interest, and nice arrangement for us to get together. Maybe I must read the text because my preparation was a little bit comprehensive long and maybe not really exciting, but kind of a lecture. So please forgive me. First, I must talk a little bit about the incident which we had last week in Korea, which surprised everyone and we were shocked when Ambassador Lippert was attacked from my point of view, a schizophrenic person with twisted and skewed ideology which he believed in for too long time, which is rightly, from my point of view, inconsistent with what we believe as a destiny of Korea. He believes in some other phonetic ideology that we should reject, but he reversed, believed in that, and then he expressed his anger through an attack and I really hope that Ambassador Lippert, he was out of the hospital maybe yesterday, but he should recover very soon. From my point of view, he's an icon of courage which United States is showing to the world and he was very nice, friendly, and he tried to be in the middle of Korean people even though I didn't meet him yet, but through his Facebook, I became his friend. I was impressed how much he tried to reach out to ordinary Korean people, he was so loved. That's why he's being uploaded and he's getting so much support, sympathy from the Korean people. I think the alliance between US and Korea is strong enough and bondage is deep so that anyone can really reverse this from this kind of vicious act. So anyway, I'm glad that we are here and Ambassador Lippert is okay. As Victor and then Mr. Marsher introduced us and then hoped how Kuika would play in the global and regional context, but I would like to minimize my scope. At least this public session, I would like to introduce what we are doing mostly and how Korea has been developing from a poorest country in the world to a donor country this time. I think we can share with you first the dynamic development experience of South Korea. I use the word dynamics in Korea as one of the few countries in the world to turn herself from least developed country to an official member of donor country of OECDAC member. I would like first to touch how Korea, a world-stricken, underdeveloped, overcome the abject poverty utilizing development systems from the world, especially from the United States and how Korea and US work together in facing global changes in development assistance. After the end of 36 years' colonial rule of Japan, as you know very well, the Korean government was established in 1948. But unfortunately, the tragic, pretricidal Korean war broken out in just three years later destroying the entire society. The damage of war was severe. The agriculture production was reduced by 27% while the annual GDP was cut by 14%. More than 5 million people were killed, injured, or missed. Per capita GDP of Korea in 1953 was only around $70, approximately the same as that of Ghana. The life expectancy in 1960 was only 52 years while the infant mortality rate was as high as 7%. With a strong commitment in development from the top and appropriate national development planning in the 1962, 1970s, Korea was able to achieve remarkable economic and social development in a relatively short period of time, particularly the proper mixture of state planning and strong drive for industrialization resulted in drastic export increase and GDP growth. In parallel, the Korean government launched a rural community development program called Semal Undong, New Village Movement in English at the beginning of the 1970s, reducing urban rural development gap and revenue gap, and expediting equitable growth between the two areas. Religious in Korea from my own experience until the beginning of the 1970s had no other stories than extreme poverty, hunger, and disease. When I was young, we were provided with the anti-parasite escort because most of the Koreans at the time carried some kind of round forms in their industry due to human-manured agriculture. And it is well-known, some of you may have the chance to see a Korean movie recently played in the US. What was the name? Uncle, something, showing the story of... Coach my father. Coach my father. That is a story from the withdrawal from Hongnam after Cheolshinu battle. Then US Marines and Navy could miraculously send hundreds of 1,000 Korean people into North to Busan and southern area of Korea. That is a story how this family survived and then become very happy and decent family in Korea. Anyway, Korean people were sent to Germany for dangerous mining jobs. That picture showed one of this story. They had to be released for hard construction work to simply earn money for living and to earn foreign currency for the government. And a lot of young girls had to go to factories to make a living for themselves and their families and had to work under hardship and sometimes with discrimination. The strong devotion and efforts of the Korean people for development were also backed by foreign assistance, as Victor mentioned. From 1942, officially to 1995, for five decades, Korea had received more than 12 billion US dollars of aid from the world, 44% of which from the United States. Your assistance to Korea played a really pivotal role in Korea's post-war recovery and economic reconstruction. USAID, maybe at the time, the name I remember was YUSUM rather than USAID in Korea, played a key role in development of Korea. It provides bulk of financial resources to build infrastructure, while at the same time strengthened capacity of Korea and helped introduce regulatory institutions. YUSUM provided much-needed food for people and capital asset. And over 3,000 Korean professionals in diverse areas, such as medical science, we have had many, many bright and elite medical doctors in the United States, thanks to this program. And many descendants are from, Korean Americans are from the early intellectual medical doctors, and provide them with intense training in the US passport. USAID also provided support and active in international institutional development organization that are playing crucial roles in Korea, such as KDI, KIST, and Hospital of National University to name a few. The role of US Peace Corps was critical for the capacity building of Korea. From 1966 to 1981, more than 2,000 US Peace Corps volunteers were sent to work with the Korean people in rural and community development activities. Also, they conducted various programs in English education, public health, hygiene, campaign. The Peace Corps were friends, teachers, and diplomats that acted as britches in building unswerving ties between Korea and the United States. The former US Ambassador, for example, to Korea, Miss Ambassador Kathleen Stevens, was a good example to be recognized. Thank you so much for your coming today. Friends of Korea, we have here alumnae of US Peace Corps to Korea. The name of this alumnae is Friends of Korea in the US. Thank you. Thanks to the concerted efforts of Korean people as well as assistance from outside, Korea has recorded unprecedented economic and social advancement. According to IMF, Korea's GDP per capita is projected to exceed 30,000 US dollars this year, which will be an astounding sum, 404 increase compared to that of 1953. After Korea joined OISTEDA, Korea quickly hosted a wonderful important forum for development. The fourth high-level forum on aid effectiveness in Busan in 2011, which produced the Busan Global Partnership Principle, became one of a key standard on development effectiveness in post-2015 agenda setting. Korea's total commitment to ODA in 2015 is only about $2.2 billion in USD. Even the ratio up to GNI is still well below from what UN has recommended. The rate of growth in volume is highest among donor countries. For us, Korea is conducting various integrated development projects and technical cooperation programs in over 120 countries. Korea also invites around 5,000 civil servants and young professionals in developing countries annually and provides training programs and capacity building opportunities for them. In addition, Korea runs overseas volunteer program and selects around 2,500 volunteers and experts and 2,000 short-term volunteers, dispatching finally more than 4,500 volunteers annually. In addition, Korea has expanded knowledge-sharing service on development issues through seminars, workshops, and training and forums in close partnership with the main international organizations and research institutions like UNDP, OECD, UNICEF, Chetam House, whatever institutions who are well known and have a reputable capacity in the world. Now I think our partner Global Peace Foundation would be one of these partners. And yesterday, I had pleasure to meet with Janet Fruster, Special Olympics, of which headquarters in Washington. I was lucky to make a first-ever partnership with this organization to help intellectually disabled people in the world. As a result, many developing nations consider Korea as not just a made-to-stories tool, because I meet so many people around the world. They all consider Korea as an exemplar model for economic development and social development, are trying to benchmark Korea's development experiences. For example, Semah Rundong, which I mentioned, we studied in 1970s, is one case. Over 40 countries are asking for us to help them to introduce, implement similar Semah Rundong in their country's own development. We are working with WFP. We are working with UNDP. Also, we are looking for some type of broader technical and knowledge sharing with World Bank. There is also growing needs for us to assist technology development, human capacity development, particularly in the ICT area for all those countries. COICA also tries to make its assistance more effective by working together with diverse partners. The civil society in Korea now actively engaged in as many as 103 countries with more than 1,400 projects standing around the globe, given the figure as of 2013. NGOs in Korea started as one who had to help people injured and opens and families lost. This was the start of a civil war in Korea. Now, Korean civil society is engaged in more than 103 countries. They are raising US$3.4 billion as of last year. And they are reaching out not only to countries in the Southeast Asia. They are going to such remote countries as Brooklyn and Faso. Do you know where Brooklyn and Faso is? Malawi, Chad, those very fragile and vulnerable countries to help. I'm proud of them. Our budget to support these activities boosted almost 100 times compared to that of 1995. We are currently working with about 130 partners in the civil society, and have committed around US$5 million to fund projects of only this civil society without accounting, without counting our program with the corporates and other sectors. We don't only fund from our point of view. We think it wise and needed. Try to leverage the funding and resources from other partners, not only domestic but also worldwide. COICA is very keen to seek for innovative partnership with prestigious global leaders and corporates and philanthropic foundations and international organizations. They will bring far-reaching impact and value for investment we commonly make. Now, I would like to touch what we are doing with the United States. On a broader perspective, our alliance, Korea has joined in the US effort on the global scale to secure peace and reconstruct war-streak nations such as Afghanistan and Iraq, as you know very well. Korean government has supported these countries with cash and projects. The Korean government provided a grant of US$260 million from 2003 to 2007 for the reconstruction of Iraq as pledged at the Madrid Donal Conference in 2003. Korea started to contribute another US$200 million from 2008 to 2011. In addition, Korean government provide grant aid of US$200 million to Afghanistan to promote sustainable economic growth and peace building. Also in the ISAF, International Security Assistance Force, meeting in 2011, Korea is contributing grant aid of US$500 million to Afghanistan for five years. I think we have allocated US$300 million for couples building of military and police for security and US$200 million for economic and social development. In these countries, with all risk of security, members and staff and employees quick has carried out such projects as hospitals, skilled job training center, and schools. For example, in Bagram Air Base, we are still running one hospital and one job training center where there is no one else among PRT members than Korea. These programs are highly appreciated by local residents and US commanders as well. I was there myself, and then I had the opportunity to hear the old compliments from US commander and soldiers. I was so glad when US servicemen, medical doctors, worked with our doctors in the hospital. They volunteered to help the operation of the hospital and they loved very much the hospital. But I think this hospital must be moved or remain. It is a very, very difficult question for us. Anyway, as declared by President Park Nye in her speech when he was here two years ago at the US Congress, Koika and US agencies, namely USAID and Peace Corps, have worked together to design and implement real programs, not only MOU but joint programs in several countries. USAID and Koika are working together on global health challenge program with Koika's modest financial contribution, which is for improving dramatically maternal health in Ghana and Ethiopia. Green Gross Pilot Project in Vietnam is another case for cooperation. We are going to, on the other hand, formulate wider and broad partnership with both countries, famous corporates like Samsung Electronics and Walmart with USAID. We are trying to form a broader public-private partnership with both countries. We are also very much interested in joining in the President Obama's initiative called Power Africa because it is daunting task. And then we need a lot of financial resources and technical contribution and couples building of Africa so that these projects can be realized. For the Peace Corps, we are proud that alumni of US Peace Corps volunteers are still very active with bondage and honor. The Peace Corps alumni such as Nancy Kelly and other members of France, Korea are the ones who have increased us to form joint programs with Peace Corps. Corey is here. He was the one who were working very hard in the middle to link these two organizations. I thank you so much for this. The joint activists have also been realized in various countries since the MOU signed between Coyka and Peace Corps. We have introduced capable human resources to each other, such as safety trainers in Jordan, Colombia and Tanzania. Peace Corps volunteers have been invited to evaluation works of Coyka projects in Nepal, Senegal, and Indonesia. Particularly, I'm so excited to see Peace Corps volunteers and experts to join in Coyka's project site, such as Health Care Center and job training school. We are talking about exchanging programs in El Salvador, Paraguay, this year. Furthermore, we are going to share the best practice for the cooperation in deaths by participating in Peace Corps workshop, which will be held here in Washington, D.C., on the coming 30th March, very quickly, maybe in two weeks' time. Still, we have plenty of areas where Peace Corps and Coyka can work together, forming a youth alliance, learning and helping each other in Asia, maybe with the support of Global Peace Foundation, and elsewhere, is an important task we'll be able to promote. We believe such programs, if it really activated, would lay a solid ground for long term, long lasting peace and prosperity and harmony and democracy in the region, particularly in North and South East Asia. There are many other topics. I think you are already tired to listening to me. Give me a few more minutes to finish. Korea is also working very hard with other donor partners and development actors to address complex, emergent and crucial challenges of security and peace and development, and try to correspond together to new global commitments. There are so many challenges. You know, ISIS and terror and people are scared to do any economy activities. There are a lot of refugees in Jordan and Turkey, for Syria, Italy's complaining where the instant immigrants from North African countries, there are so many problems we are now. Now, we are entering into new era of development, which we call it post-2015. This year is the last year to set up all the goals and make an agreement on how to make this goals possible from how to find the money. What kind of policy must you take and how we coordinate among ourselves. This year is really key year for the next decade. As you are all aware, one of the biggest problem and task for us is how to agree on controlling climate change. Climate change is one of the biggest agenda for this year and not only the climate change, as I mentioned, the conflicts and civil wars are creating serious humanitarian problems in the world. I think we are now in a worse situation than previous decade in terms of humanitarian situation. Worldwide humanitarian situation rapidly deteriorated and damages of climate change become ever overwhelming imminent than anyone anticipated. Not a single nation is immune from such global changes to make the situation worse. All the problems and the exposure is with more vulnerable countries in the developing world than advanced countries. You know, on a broader note, we are surprised by the demonstration, violence, terror and kidnapping human trafficking in many countries. We, I think there is no single day that without listening or hearing this kind of bad news around the world. I think the situation in Middle East, North and Central Africa and West Asia have been deteriorated and improved. Millions of people, tens or maybe tens of millions of people, especially in developing countries and least developed countries suffer from all sorts of high and low profile humanitarian crisis, such as military conflicts, civil wars, environmental disasters, natural disaster, pandemic or epidemic disease and human rights, abuse and violence, lesions every day. According to the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2014, the number of internally displaced people reached an unprecedented figure of 33.3 million, while the number of refugees rose to 16.7 million people. The global spending on humanitarian relief soared as diseases, disasters, deteriorates hundreds of millions of lives in developing countries. More recently, you, as you are very aware and then now the situation is being controlled fortunately, Ebola destroyed the lives of so many people and economic activities in the West Africa. The Korean government also took part in the global efforts to fight against these tragic challenges. For example, for Ebola response, Korea is among seven countries operating national level medical unit in Sierra Leone. There are so many who need our hands in and around conflict zones. Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Sudan, South Sudan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Central Africa, Mali, Chad, and there are many more. Growing another challenge we face is growing inequality. Inequality has risen within most developed and developing countries alike, making social stability and sustainable growth much more difficult than in the previous decades. Even though we have achieved many things in MDGs and then people living under extreme poverty has been halved, but inequality has been dramatically risen in almost every country. For in, with regard to climate change damage, climate change is very complex, hard to deal with and then interest of countries are different and it's very hard to get a consensus. The negotiations that took so long years that this may be the last chance for governments to get along, but the damage is very clear. Almost 400,000 people per year is vanishing from the climate change, costing the world more than 1.2 trillion USD, wiping 60% of, 1.6% annually from the global GDP. Among many others, the climate change is creating also water and food security. Some countries in Central Asia are even facing a conflict with other nations because of water scarcity. While, for example, according to UNICEF and WHO, almost 800 million people lack access to safe drinking water worldwide. It is, I think, critical to note that there are notable predictions that predictions or warning that some reasons at risk of a potential military conflict over food and water in the decade. Under this circumstances, world community, particularly OECD members are trying to secure financial resources, noting their limit. Countries in the south, on the other hand, are calling for expanded official assistance from the OECD countries, including Korea. But it is growing concern that the resources and financing for development is not matching with the demand. There is, by estimation of experts, there is a 1 trillion gap per year in matching the demand which is caused by climate change, natural disaster, and humanitarian crisis. How to make this fund possible is one, as I told you, one of the biggest concerns for us. With the facing challenge of this scale, we need to effectively pull public and private resources together and try to mitigate risk in financing for the global development. For this part, OECD will continue to make effort to become an extensible platform. This is what we have built in Vietnam as a hospital, extensive platform for as many programs as possible, knowledge sharing, innovative ideas, and noble contribution from private sector we anticipate. We strengthen our partnership and expand our nettoes with various private partners in and outside of Korea, which I believe one of them would be Global Peace Foundation. In fact, the U.S. and Peace Corps are most important partners among others. COICA is also expanding partnership with other friendly organizations like DFID Britain, AFD France, JICA Japan, and those of EU. And Turkey, Mexico are extremely important partner for Korea because these are MiGTA members. And Thailand and Brazil, there are many others. I believe cooperation with China will be one good part of our effort to form an extended partnership network that will contribute peace and security also in North East Asia and reconciliation. Now Korea and the U.S. together should continue on exhibiting leadership in the international donor community. I hope Korea and the U.S. continues to develop its alliance, not only in traditional domain of security and economy, but also in overcoming those global challenges and promoting decency of human lives. Now I'm finishing, so don't be too much bored. U.S. Korea will share a clear cut, common interest, helping countries in transition or in transformation to succeed and finally achieve, let them achieve, democracy and prosperity. I hope personally North Korea will look to these cases. At the minute, the world community has been called upon to form a inclusive partnership to enlarge base of our resources, financial, human and technology and value. I think from this partnership we can really create wider impact and social values for not only our own citizens, but for the sake of world peace and prosperity. Now I'm finishing, I really thank you for listening to me. This is a picture taken by my staff when I visited one remote village in Ethiopia where they were fascinated and thrilled by our help and my visit. Almost 2,000 villagers came out and chanting and dancing around me, so I had to do something for them. So I think helping others and then getting this kind of excitement is one part of our pleasure and feel and be happy from the soul. I think helping others has values as it has, not with the reasoning, but just as a human being we are happy to help each other. So thank you very much for listening to me. Your names are on this. They're not giving me a break. Thank you Ambassador. Ambassador Kim for a comprehensive statement of all that you and Koika and the ROK and the U.S., Peace Corps, USAID are doing. We'd like to use the time that we have left to have a little bit of a discussion and begin by first having two of our friends and experts here at CSIS offer some comments and reactions to what you said so far. Let me briefly introduce them. To the immediate left of Ambassador Kim is John Brouse. John is the Director of the World Food Programs Washington Liaison Office. He came to WFP following a 22-year career with USAID where he most recently served as Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Management. Previously he served as Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance. And I worked with John when he was on the NSC. He was the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Relief Stabilization and Development at the White House in 2008. Prior to his time in the NSC he served as Director of the Office Program of Policy and Management at USAID and served as a Senior Policy Advisor to USAID Administrator Andrew Nazios. And then to John's left is David Caprera. David is a non-resident fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution. He also serves as Director for the Global Peace Service Alliance. He formally directed faith-based and community initiatives at the Corporation for National and Community Service here in Washington, D.C. and volunteers in service to America, otherwise known as VISTA, promoting mentoring programs, asset development, Homeland Security, and other initiatives to strengthen children and families throughout the country. David conceived and co-directed the International Roundtable on Volunteering and Service with the Points of Light Foundation, USAID, and Corporation for National and Community Service. In 2006 he co-directed the International Conference on Faith and Service with former USA Freedom Corps Director John Bridgeland and the National Conference on Citizenship. Prior to that, David served as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Director in the Office of Resident Initiatives under Secretary Jack Kemp at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also served as Director of the Virginia Governors Commission on Citizen Empowerment and as Director of the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development. So, first I would like to go to both John and David to offer some initial remarks, and then I think we'll try to open it up for discussion with the time that we have left. John, would you like to go first? Sure, thanks. Thanks, Victor, to you and CSIS for hosting this as well as the Global Peace Foundation. I have to say for me, it's an amazing pleasure to be here listening to President Kim's comments on Korea's remarkable evolution, if you will, from a very needy recipient country to one that is a donor. To bring it a little bit to WFP, the whole transition, this whole evolution that South Korea has gone through, WFP's been along with them the whole time. Our history is now 51 years working with South Korea on not just their progress towards becoming a developed country, but now working with them as a donor country in a way that I think is just remarkable. It's good. The Ambassador, the President, made a comment that their ODA levels aren't quite maybe where the world thinks they should be, but to me, the ROK is a perfect example of what we want to see in all countries as they move along the development continuum. There has been steady, deliberate progress by the ROK to continue to grow their investment in the international community. It started for us after 20 years of being a help to them in their development from 64 to 84. Immediately after that point, they became a donor. It was modest, but it was deliberate and it has grown every year. We are now partners with them working in Africa using the same new village movement that was used in South Korea to help develop the rural communities. We're now using together with them in Africa and in other countries in Nepal to help bring those communities along as well. To me, it's just exactly what we look for, the kind of investments. I don't want to take too much time because I know we have a lot of questions that people probably want to ask, but South Korea brings its unique development experience to the table, which many developing countries want to see. They don't just want the donor community delivering demands and requirements, but South Korea brings an understanding that the other countries recognize. They say, we can do it too. South Korea did it, we can do it too. That's critically important. Just as the President says, brings a strong civil society to the table that's out there doing a huge amount. It's not just attention on North Korea. It's attention on the world. And if I can, one personal anecdote. In 2007, I took part in the Ocha Donors Support Group meeting that was held in Seoul. If you know Ocha, that's the Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs in New York. And the South Korean government decided to host the Ocha Donors Support Group, even though they had just joined the year before. They did a fantastic job. But what's interesting is, about six years later, the Deputy Emergency Response Coordinator and Assistant Secretary General of Ocha is a South Korean woman. South Korea is not just investing money, not just their ideas, but they're committed to engage fully in the international development system to do what they can to make the world move forward in a positive way. And WFP is extremely proud to be part of their work, to support them in their effort. And I'll just end by saying we just signed on February 11th our partnership agreement and again, we are thrilled to be partners with them. So thanks. Thanks Victor and congratulations Ambassador President Kim for a remarkable presentation of the Korean Miracle on the Han and how Koika has come to the fore as a real leader in global development. I wanted to underscore the role of civil society can play in multi-stakeholder alliances giving further substance to the positive role Korea is playing in the field of peace. Last October at the United Nations for Asia in Bangkok Global Peace Foundation UNESCO, SCAP teamed up with young leaders and NGOs from 40 nations and launched the Asia Pacific Peace and Service Development Alliance I might add facilitated by Peace Corps volunteers alongside Asian volunteers. Later this month an alliance will convene in Kathmandu, Nepal highlighting some models of water that certainly is one of them that Nepal is working hard on and in June in Ula-Betar, Mongolia there will be a Northeast Asia convening as well. After the Bangkok convene and Koika and Peace Corps came on stage literally bilaterally but also multi-laterally which is very encouraging to launch what's been affectionately called a global Peace Corps approach. This is a dream that in Asia ASEAN former Secretary General Sirin Pitzewan while he headed ASEAN actually proposed that after the Myanmar Cyclones. It also furthers the Korean dream vision. We heard the ethos of service to the world articulated in Dr. Moon Hunjin's book shared by Mike Marshall as well as the original charge of Peace Corps itself that John F. Kennedy had to wage peace in the world through global service. This Asia Peace Corps ideal then took shape with the UN and these partners that included ASEAN entities the FK Norway Sponsorship Singapore Australia and many others propelling the vision behind it all was really 400 young leaders from Manila to Jakarta to Pakistan Korea, China that came together there and I think their power really helps propel all this. The Asia Alliance was launched to take action on the post-2015 development agenda that's emerging including Clean Water, All Lights Villages, Youth Entrepreneurship Health and other interventions and there's also a peace and development nexus emerging that I think is very important shaping this 2015 post-agenda. Furthermore, a university research network was born. I want to acknowledge my senior fellow colleague at Brookings Lex Riafoil and the University of Philippines and others that were there in Bangkok and forged a scholarly network to assess outcomes and I think we need more rigor in looking at that in the post-2015 agenda. Last week, Malaysia's minister of youth was here in Washington met with us and shared Prime Minister Najib's charge for them to form their own peace corps. He met Gary Hesler and the team of peace corps as well. Under Malaysia's current chairmanship, ASEAN is incorporating this whole Alliance Asia Pacific Alliance strategy into the wellspring of ASEAN's 10 nations project on regional integration this year which is significant. In Africa, similarly, the 19 nation commesa block is doing the same and GPF will co-convene with the East Africa community in Tanzania on this issue in June along with the whole challenge of identity-based conflict in the region. Prior service convening, so like the one in Bangkok we're convening at UN headquarters in Africa launching an Africa peace service alliance or corps. Again, peace corps volunteers were there facilitating alongside African volunteers. Samsung has been a leader in the Africa effort. Safaricom invented mobile banking in East Africa that's known worldwide now. They chair a 10 corporate group effort in the slums of Nairobi transforming slum waste. They call it trash for cash or recycling slum waste into youth enterprises that are owned. So these kind of innovative models are all part of a mosaic that some have called a global peace corps approach with multilateral partners. I want to thank President Kim and Cueca for helping lead this way. Encourage your further role as you mentioned today in the Asia alliance and I know you're involved in upcoming convenings in Nepal. And also peace corps including Peter Redmond that's here Global Operations. Ted Abrams has given a charge to work on these projects. We'd be remiss in not naming at least two volunteers in the room. Chuck Hoby, if you could stand a former Peace Corps volunteer in Korea let's say two generations at once and Kim, a Korean American just returned from Africa rural villages in Ethiopia President Kim, where she did joint projects with Cueca. Both of you understand. And Nancy Kelly from Peace Corps Korea alumni. All of them are part of this mosaic. Just last I want to mention along with these alliances the role of broker nations like Mongolia was our last forum in the USIS. In December President Park N.A. has proposed a Northeast Asia peace and cooperation initiative. And the role of neutral nations like Mongolia and partners like Cueca Peace Corps UNS cap can be very significant in this mix. In 2011 GPF convened in the Government House in Obitar a convening looking at this whole role of convening youth and service and track two approaches in Northeast Asia. So like President Park's Northeast Asia initiative Mongolia President Elbig Dorch has advanced the Ulibitar dialogue that's a regional approach to the development that has profound implications for peace and security. Mongolia has a track record of hosting humanitarian civil society as well as academic exchanges. So we think that's a place where Cueca Peace Corps and NGOs might find a next act if you will is a staging ground for collaborative projects of volunteers. And I'll leave you with the details of the discussion including in June will co convene in Ulibitar Young Leaders Assembly in conjunction with an international Young Leaders Assembly at the UN and World Bank with Ban Ki Moon Youth Envoy that will then feed into the convening in Northeast Asia in Ulibitar. Details on that at www.iola.info. Thank you very much. Thanks David. Thank you John. This is such an uplifting discussion. Usually we're talking about very uplifting. This is fantastic. So I'd like to offer a chance for the audience to be involved in the discussion. If you could just raise your hand and state your name and please ask a question. Don't give a long speech or anything like that. Personally I'd also like to hear more from the Ambassador. You had that picture up there of the MOU that was signed between the United States and the ROK on involving Peace Corps and Cueca. You'd love to hear more from Peter and from Ambassador Kim about the things that you have that you're thinking about going forward and that would be actually quite interesting to the group. But if you have any questions just raise your hand and we'll begin the discussion. Hi, I'm Ray Lynn Campbell with the United Nations Foundation and since nobody else was jumping up I figured I'd touch on something that all of you alluded to and that's the role of ICT innovation in new approaches and just looking at the new global village movement. What kind of role does technology play in some of the partnerships that different organizations are pulling together? I saw the Cook's Dove announcement picture featured there and that's I know part of the new village movement that Cueca is rolling out but just looking at different organizations in different approaches and how they're adopting technology as a foundation into that. Yes, thank you for this question. I think we need to promote as many technologies as possible in rural development for many reasons. First one is the technology is giving them the opportunity to learn new method for agriculture and increased productivity and morally they call access to the modern world civilization and they need to improve their environment like sanitation and health and also clean air in the house. For example, one Cook's Dove device which will completely reduce the pollution in the house by using dirty fuels and then having no way of controlling the folks that is the main culprit for pneumonia and then deaths of young children, babies in the house. For example, if we can teach them how to make a smart, small device to control the air is one way we can do. Another thing is that for example, if we help farmers how to cultivate they need to know how to use modern small not advanced but modern technologies to restore the products how to control products how to make a clean how to prevent being rotten and also be connected with the internet so that they learn about to compare the price and how to marketizing is possible. There are so many ways for us to teach them introducing small technologies. One way for them to promote and get equal access to education is to use mobiles and e-learning, distant learning. Other thing would be also using mobile networks and also other devices. So that they can be connected with the health control and we can monitor what is the situation and what kind of emergencies they are facing so that the remote villages can be connected with some centers. So there are so many things to do with all these technologies. We try to open our doors so that many genius are coming with their own devices and technology. Thank you very much President Kim and distinguished panel. Actually the ICT question is perfect. Segway into the question I had. Learning more about the new village model that was central to the 1970s development in the Republic of Korea. I'm wondering that's sort of the model that Peace Corps has been embracing over the years. Grassroots, sustainable development, rural focused. Times changed though. I certainly ICT has had a big impact. Where do you see other opportunities for development besides that new village model approach? That's Peter Redman who is Senior Advisor for Global Operations at Peace Corps. You know things are interlinked. If we talk about smart that is a modern type of police movement there includes woman empowerment and respect for children and consciousness for human rights and accountability self ownership. There are so many other values which are needed for modernization. But if we can separate and promote another brand then some are new some are village is a technology supported innovation. Or connecting with the social value chain and global value chain. For example, by using ICTs or biotechnologies a lot of products on the ground can be eco-friendly or more efficient, more productive and more qualified. We would like to connect with the companies like CJ in Korea. CJ is a group which produce food and trade food and running restaurants. If they are put in some villages and teach them how to make a qualified products we would ask them to buy. Then this remote village is being connected at that point to global value chain because they are now in the market. Many, many small farmers around the globe living on the extreme property scene being connected with the market. Their products were remaining in the field and rotten and not used. When somebody has come and give small money and take everything they have no other way to resist. So we would like to have them with technology and knowledge to be marketized, to be connected with the rest of the world. This will be, I hope, will be another brand for Koika as one sustainable creating impact for the global value chain. That would be another approach for us. I think President Kim is exactly right. We have a program called P4P, Purchase for Progress that is very similar in concept. The idea is to take the whole community, the whole agricultural community in a village or what have you and help them gain the technological understanding that they need, whether it's on the production side or as he critically mentions in the loss prevention areas. And then give them access to markets, which is just a huge issue in rural agriculture. They don't understand how to access the markets. They don't have access to credit. But then when you give them a cell phone, and many have leaped beyond landlines, of course, they skip the whole generation of technology, now they're into cell phones, and you can transfer money, you can transfer information, you can send market prices, and this just this work can strengthen the amount of resources that a community can generate. Without increasing their production necessarily, you just reduce their losses and it's still a profit for them. So these types of integrated approaches, as the President said are exactly what needs to be done. It's no longer linear. It's an integrated action to ensure all aspects of the development process are addressed. Thank you for supporting me. David, I'm glad our UN colleague mentioned the Women's Cook Stove Project and President Kim, but you've highlighted technology along with Peace Corps. When you look at the combination of small technology with larger technology like SafariCom's mobile banking platform in America, I think the potential to address any human challenge, whether conflict or development, is really limitless. Just to give you one anecdote, in Uganda villages, there are a thousand village health workers, mostly women, streaming up bed nets, dealing with clean water source, and then they've added the Cook Stove Project, which our foundation also supported. And there were a couple of Peace Corps volunteers helping unlock this project. We have a lot of volunteers, you know, small technology, and it's one of the few evidence-based Macquarie University. They have an actual experimental evaluation design. Cook Stove Project.org, by the way. They're here tomorrow night. But I think that's a fascinating example. And Tim Shriver in his wisdom, his father created Peace Corps and John F. Kennedy, his father, his Kennedy's brother-in-law, Sarge, who we all affectionately are hosted in his home, an event with the other co-founder of Peace Corps, Harris Wofford, an event to promote these alliances in Africa. And Tim called all of this an open source platform. And when you see these combinations of people coming together, and perhaps in the 2015 post agenda, collectively, as you've highlighted, President Kim and your speech, collective impact can zero in like these Uganda Village projects on many more examples to turn the tide and to see a lot of points in development and peace. Thank you. My name is Tom Kim. I just returned to Washington for good after having lived in South Korea for seven years. My question regards to the allocation of your resources as a donor country to other countries. And it's not clear nowadays whether South Korean government will take North Korea as part of their internal relationship to a special nature or an international by the international as a normal state, one of the members of the United Nations. So I don't think the assistance to humanitarian assistance to North Korea would fall under the scope of the U.N. organization, but nevertheless you did mention South Korea and supports hundreds of millions of dollars to help other developing countries to improve their whatever needs they may have in medical, environmental and economic development and so forth now. Nevertheless, you did mention you work with other U.N. organizations such as NDP and other WFP and so for my question is whether you can tell us that how much of your allocation of resources are geared, not directly as I said for the reasons I mentioned, but indirectly to North Korea to the benefit of the North poor, probably stricken North Koreans. This is one question and of course President Park asked the building policy stipulates that there would be no restriction to provision of humanitarian assistance to North Koreans, but that has not been happening as you know. So let me just give you one more comment when I was frequently visiting Pyongyang in 1990s. UNDP was interested in helping North Koreans to develop and improve their agricultural management know-how. North Koreans were not interested in this type of innovation or agricultural management. They rather wanted to get substantive assistance either in the formal book. Food assistance and material assistance, that's what they were interested in. I don't know if they are still working in Pyongyang, but my question again coming back to your activities, how much of your allocation of resources are geared for North Korea? There are many aspects in your question, Mr. Kim. First of all Korean government, not Korea, has been carrying out humanitarian assistance to North Korea not even if not very much expanded and changing way but very stead. I think accumulation of humanitarian assistance in North Korea by South Korea reaches 3.8 billion by the end of last year. International donations to North Korea has gone up during the late 90s and early 2000, but because of North Korean behave like scaring others by sending firing missiles and then nuclear tests and all the noise they are making may have been contributing to the diminished international donations to North Korea. The total amount of humanitarian aid has been diminished very quickly over the last 5 to 6 years after North Korea went into nuclear bomb test. European Union and some other individual European countries are carrying out small programs for food and medical aid to North Korea. Ocha is organizing all different type of assistance to North Korea. Korea still even Korea is not fantastically dramatically increased that doesn't increase the aid but still Korea is the largest owner. Korea's position is very complicated and subtle in this regard because North Korea's law North Korea is still part of Republic Korea. It's not foreign state so when we trade with North Korea economically, North Korea is considered special enjoying special status neither a foreign state nor a part of Korea. We call it special relations but if we go to the United Nations we have accepted North Korea as another member of the United Nations so we deal with North Korea as a foreign state. I must confess that there are double standards. Our programs to our humanitarian assistance is being used by internal unification fund and foreign assistance fund but Korean government used WHO UNFPA and UNDP as an agent who is carrying out the assistance to North Korea. I think hundreds of some level of 20 million I don't have exact number are being used for helping those organizations. Some are being used directly for North Korea some are not used for North Korea so we don't know exactly how much are being used for North Korea but internal relations we have been supporting some selected NGOs to go in North Korea to carry out helping them to heal tuberculosis and other activities giving them know how to make a noodle and increase productivity these are being continued while we are not being asked we as an organization we can do it or we don't have to do it depending on government policy but we have not yet requested to directly support aid to North Korea but we are having excellent relations with other organizations. We don't intervene in what programs they are using. We are running out of time here but if I could ask you just one other quick question. I was curious do how much work does COICA do with JICA other organizations like COICA in the region of Asia? We have regular meetings and then regular contacts always we work with JICA exchange programs and information we have been trying to forge out a very specific joint programs in Cambodia and some others. We are very close but we have not yet agreed on specific programs but we are very close to do division of labor in promoting, democratic and then managing electric system in Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan is one for example of how COICA is helping other countries for moving toward democracy we are helping them with equipment, new technology at the same time the institution. JICA will take part of this big scheme and Swiss will take another part so I think finally we will be one in promoting electric system of Kyrgyzstan but in Cambodia, Myanmar and Sri Lanka there are many potential to cooperate with each other we are also talking with Ajans France the developer AFD for cooperation in Laos Cambodia and Sri Lanka and also we are now making some detailed study on programs in Palestine with Turkey for example and with Mexico we are talking about how to help each other for helping Cuba there are many other examples so... Thank you well you know Ambassador Kim we always talk about how the USROK Alliance has grown and inspires and continues to be a global alliance you know as a public good providing to the international community and I can't think of a better example of that in the alliance relationship than the work you are doing and the work Koyka is doing both with Peace Corps, USAID UN as well as civil society so thank you for all your work and thanks for taking the time today