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As an interpreter and translator

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All remarks at the Kwanhun Debate

  • isolationist policy / closed-door policy: country isolation policy

  • Well informed about foreign affairs: who are well aware of/well informed about foreign affairs

  • reciprocal visits: mutual visits

  • Breaking conventional wisdom: that looks beyond conventional thinking

  • Korea-China strategic cooperative partnership: Korea-China strategic cooperative partnership

Tariffs:

  • the US would provide tariffs terms for semiconductors no less favorable than those granted to other partners

  • Trump administration would ultimately move forward with semiconductor tariffs

  • Trump may impose duties without a statutory ceiling

  • Chips have been exempt from tariff measures

  • Trump administration is moving to invoke an alternative trade law

  • Even if Korea falls under the provision, key industries are expected to face limited impact

  • the tariffs were imposed under Section 301

ETC

  • strengthening policy coherence and enhancing on-the-ground implementation: Connecting policy outcomes more closely and further strengthening on-the-ground implementation capabilities

  • corrected unnecessary projects: Correcting unnecessary projects

  • gradually removing policy restraint: easing the austerity stance

  • neutral level: neutral level/neutral

  • women’s empowerment: strengthening women’s capabilities

  • advisory group: advisory group

  • gender-responsive humanitarian action: gender-responsive humanitarian support

  • Preference age for senior citizens: the eligibility age for older workers

  • Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites

  • reusable rockets

  • Eternal life unknown: become immortal / to live eternally

  • Information-rich

  • Information distortion, inequality, irresponsibility

  • cohesion policy: cohesion policy / consistent policy

  • national, regional, and local authorities:

  • (Military) dual-use activities: Activities for both military and civilian use

  • pre-financing advance support (advance payment) / co-financing rates

  • The Kospi delivered exceptional gains in 2025 and continues its bull run this year

  • evoke tears and laughter

Full-forward simultaneous challenge:

  • (1) Through two summit meetings with the United States, economic and security challenges were boldly overcome as opportunities to strengthen national power:

  • With the US, through two summit meetings, we moved boldly / we tackled economic and security challenges head on / and turned them into opportunities to build national strength.

  • (2) We have created a turning point in evolving the ROK-US alliance into a future strategic comprehensive alliance encompassing security, economy, science and technology cooperation:

  • We are upgrading the ROK-US alliance / it goes beyond security / to cover the economy / and science and technology cooperation / marking a turning point in building future-oriented strategic partnership.

  • (3) Compared to the traditional public deliberation method, which had limitations such as limited number of people and excessive costs, or the online civil complaint bulletin board, which had limitations such as lack of two-way discussion, poor quality of opinions, and harsh language, AI-based citizen participation platform and AI-based deliberative public deliberation with public participation have become a practical process for national integration through large-scale opinion collection, automatic summary provision, and issue mapping:

  • The old model (traditional public deliberation) was limited - few people, high cost. / Online boards also fall short - little interaction, poorer input, and toxic comments. / AI-enabled deliberation can do more - / scale up participation, auto-summarize, and map the issues - / so it can become a real process for national unity.