President Kim Dae-jung on Friday, cheered up South Korean volunteers to be sent to developing countries, calling them great pioneer world citizens and "patriots" playing a most important role in "planing the nation's image overseas."
He was speaking at a tea party he threw for President Min Hyung-ki of the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and the 94 volunteers selected for work in developing countries. Kim said that the nations of the world have entered an era of competition on the one hand and cooperation on the other.
He added that when the world sees a win-win international relationship of competition and cooperation, it will develop in peace.
Kim said...as man cannot live without metabolism, so the economy must reform, discarding what is outdated and unacceptable, and the volunteers should work for such change in their host countries.