Moments before Mark Lippert's lecture. Photographed by Lim Jae Heun.

By Lim Jae Heun (jaehlim95@korea.ac.kr)

Today, Mark Lippert, United States (U.S.) Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, dropped by Korea University (KU) to give a lecture about the current U.S. and Korea Relationship and have a small Q&A (Questions and Answers) session with the KU students. The event, which was titled, “Town Hall Meeting with U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert,” took place in the Global Conference Hall at 4 P.M.

He started out his speech by saying that the relationship between the two nations has never been better and informed the audience about his “3 part test to validate the theory,” which included the following aspects: the fact that both countries uphold a free market economy, what the countries are doing together, and how they were doing. To all of the three points, he shared some positive thoughts, stating that the alliance “had success” and is “doing very well.”

He began the second part of his lecture by mentioning the “4 pillars” of the alliance, which referred to the military, economy, global partnership, and people-to-people relationship. After listing these points, he elaborated on each one of them and added that “the military is more integrated...we have the gold standard of (Free Trade Agreement)…all these are binding people together.”

At the end of his lecture, he mentioned that “We have new issues that require sustained attention from the relationship” and named a series of current issues such as cyber, space, environment, energy, health, and technology. He ended his lecture with the remark that “The challenge is to make the relationship thrive, and we need to expand aggressively into these areas.”

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