Last year’s visit to Cambodia
I prepared it following hearing the story that I had never played soccer.
“Thanks to Asan Medical Center, Korean Air, etc.”
尹 delivered birthday wishes to Park Geun-hye
On the 31st, President Yoon Seok-yeol and his wife, Kim Gun-hee, met Ok Rota (14), a Cambodian patient whom they met during a trip to Southeast Asia last November, at the Presidential Office in Yongsan.
Secretary of Public Relations Kim Eun-hye said at the briefing that day, “President Yoon and his wife invited Rota, who is returning home from heart surgery, to the presidential office and met.” Rotta, who suffers from congenital heart disease, underwent heart transplant surgery in 2018, but was unable to receive follow-up treatment due to difficult family circumstances.
Mrs. Kim expressed her gratitude to Asan Medical Center in charge of Rota’s surgery and Korean Air in charge of transporting her. Medical staff at Seoul Asan Medical Center also visited the presidential office with Rota that day.
President Yoon heard Rotta’s story that he had never played soccer due to heart disease since childhood, and immediately presented him with a soccer ball. Chief Kim said that President Yoon also played ball together, such as lifting a ball thrown by Rota playfully and bouncing it with his body. Rota wrote a thank you note on a postcard decorated with flowers to President Yoon and his wife.
Ms. Kim also visited the design world New Year’s meeting held at the Korea Design Center in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, and encouraged the officials. In her greeting, Ms. Kim said, “Since I was on an overseas tour, the heads of state constantly asked me regarding Korean culture and fashion and art, and they took an interest in me.” found out Please don’t forget that our designers are at the center of the world with such expectations,” she encouraged.
Meanwhile, according to a presidential office official, Jeon Hee-gyeong, the first secretary for political affairs, visited the Daegu sister-in-law of former President Park Geun-hye, whose birthday is on the 2nd, and delivered a congratulatory orchid in the name of President Yoon. The congratulatory dish was received by Yoo Young-ha, a lawyer for former President Park.
Reporter Ahn Seok
