By GI Korea on August 9th, 2010 at 1:02 pm

Picture of the Day: Korea’s G20 Ambassadors

Yu-na Kim(r), reigning world figure skating champion, and Han Hyo-joo(l), a well-known actress, have been chosen as ambassadors to represent the G20 Seoul Summit.

• Edward
  6:40 am on August 9th, 2010 1

  They appear to be pointing to a little speck in Northeast Asia. Not sure which country though…

• Tom
  6:43 am on August 9th, 2010 2

  It's the United States after it goes bankrupt and gets swallowed up into the Chinese Republic.

• kushibo
  6:48 am on August 9th, 2010 3

  The 2 is covering Japan.

  Japan should be obscured?

  Japan is a bunch of #2?

• gerry301
  1:47 pm on August 9th, 2010 4

  G20? There was the G8. How did it become G20? How about the UN or any number of previous entities? Sounds more like a reason for diplomats to get togeather and eat drink and frolic than anything else.

  Imagine the money spent for hotels, dinners, reciprical dinners, airfare, for hundreds of people including security, family, press.

  When does the G40 get into the act?

  Perhaps states in the US should start advertizing as "best location" for your next G70 meeting.

• K
  2:36 pm on August 9th, 2010 5

  G's of bigger numbers will be established when each succeeding countries steadily close their economic gap with the preceding countries.

  You can make an example of Korea. It's world's 8th largest exporter, a more significant producer in the global market than Canada or UK, who are members of G7, even without gas and oil export or self-sufficiency that latter countries are entitled to. Korea is also one of world's top 10 importers who does not experience trade deficit or a negative current account, unlike ALL members of G7 who do. Korea has surpassed Spain last year in GDP PPP, and the next country that it could catch up to in economic power is Italy in this decade, a goal which is as achievable as it is not. In terms of GDP by PPP per capita, with a purchasing power of the underestimated Won versus overestimated Euro of just 50%, Korea has surpassed both Spain and Italy as we speak, signifying a higher near-future development opportunity for Korea's labor force. Korea has a very dynamic and relatively debt-free economy whose growth potential is unprecedented for a developed country of its size and strategic location, as all the four Asian Tigers are. And this is only Korea… who's not even one of the BRIC. How do you plan to accommodate the discourse and contributions of the highly financially capable BRIC into a meeting of world's most important economic partners without extending the periphery of the 'Great Who Deserve To Speak' to include more than 7 or 8?

• Kwanzai East
  4:04 am on August 10th, 2010 6

  Ya'll better get ready for the G195 Summit, you hear?

RSS feed for comments on this post | TrackBack URI