NEWS & EVENTS
[2023 ASOK Meeting with East-West Center]
(From left: Euna Cho (Manager of Maryland State Korea Office), Abbigail Hull (Program Manager of East-West Center), Sunhee Kim (Secretary General of ASOK), Danelle Hopkins (Senior Policy Advisor & Project Manager of North Dakota), Kevin Monroe (Director of Intergovernmental Affairs), Jonathan Cleave (Chairman of ASOK), Cameron Deptula (Special Assistant of Hawai’i Governor Josh Green M.D.), Sonny Vinuya (Outreach Director of Southern Nevada), Hee Jung Shin (Vice Chair of ASOK), Youjung Yoon (Manager of ASOK))
ASOK's board members led by Chairman Jonathan Cleave and Vice-chair Hee Jung Shin met with representatives from Hawaii, North Dakota, North Carolina, and Nevada through the Asia Matters for America Governors’ Staff Program of East-West Center last week.
In the meeting, discussions centered around the increasingly tight links between the two countries and ways to facilitate bilateral trade, tourism, and investment flows. The meeting also provided a platform to explore various forms of collaboration and partnership.