Hello.
This is Kisuk Cho, the first president of the Korean Association for Public Diplomacy in 2020.

In this century, public diplomacy has evolved and accomplished rapid development. Its importance is massively growing in international relations. The Korean government has rather a short history of conducting public diplomacy, but it has gained positive attention with recent health diplomacy.

However, our research development has a long way to catch up with the advancement made in the diplomatic field. Above all, public diplomacy studies require interdisciplinary approaches to understand public behaviors and attitudes, communications, and Korean culture and history in addition to traditional diplomatic studies.

Thus, scholars and researchers agreed to found the KAPD on June 10, 2020, to exert intellectual leadership in the world public diplomacy area, provide the academic discourse for next-generation education, and offer a platform for policymakers and researchers.

The Korean Association for Public Diplomacy
Kisuk Cho, President of KAPD