Dear Friends: On behalf of the American Korean Businessmen Friendship Forum(AKBFF), it is my honor and pleasure to welcome all of you to our inauguration ceremony. The American Korean Businessmen Friendship Forum is an excellent platform to strengthen the cooperation between American and Korean companies and their leaders for small and medium-size and explore ways to enhance our business relationships. In today’s interconnected global economy, it is more important than ever to collaborate and build

Dear Friends, I am pleased to extend warm greetings to all who are gathered for the American Korean Businessmen Friendship Forum’s (AKBFF) Inauguration Ceremony. This event provides a special opportunity to celebrate the establishment of this organization that aims to foster closer ties between American and Korean businesses. The United States and the Republic of Korea have a long history of collaboration and a shared commitment to democracy, the roots of which date back to

Dear Friends, It is my honor to welcome you to the founding ceremony of the American Korean Businessmen Friendship Forum! The 11th District of Virginia, which I am proud to represent in Congress, is blessed by its diversity. My district is home to one of the largest concentrations of residents of Korean ancestry in the entire nation. Korean Americans comprise the largest single ethnicity among our Asian-American residents. We also have the largest number of

Dear Friends It is my honor to commend your acumen in forming The American Korean Businessmen Friendship Forum. Heightened threats to the global economy make it particularly crucial to strengthen relationships with long time allies and trusted partners. Your timely initiative will have wide benefits to ensuring competition, technological advancement, innovation, and to countering inflationary geopolitical manipulation of access to raw materials. Your choice of Virginia just outside of Washington, D.C. for the Inauguration of

Dear Friends: As president of the Korean American Businessmen’s Friendship Forum, I am very honored and delighted to provide congratulatory remarks at this founding of the American Korean Businessmen’s Friendship Forum. The KABFF was established five years ago and its members and leaders are excited to find the AKBFF ready to start in 2023. Korea and the United States share a common belief in the principle of democracy, as well as in the importance of

Dear Friends: I am so delighted and honored to have this opportunity to convey my congratulatory remarks to the inauguration ceremony of AKBFF. In Korea, KABFF was formed in 2018 by a group of Korean businessmen who have had close business relations with American partners. Most of them who did understand the importance of the tie between the two countries wanted to strengthen the relationship even further by sharing the growth potential of both in