June 29, 2023 — Asia Society Korea’s executive director Ms. Yvonne Yoon-Hee Kim presided at the annual peace forum co-hosted by Yonhap News Agency and the Ministry of Unification as a moderator. The session was joined by senior U.S. officials H.E. Philip S. Goldberg, U.S. Ambassador to Seoul, and Lt. Gen. Scott L. Pleus, Deputy Chief of the U.S. Forces Korea, followed by a speech from H.E. Jin Park, Foreign Minister of the Republic of Korea. Under the theme of "70 Years of the ROK-U.S. Alliance: the Present and Future of the Korean Peninsula," the forum reflected on the geopolitical shifts affecting the security environment of the peninsula as the South Korea-U.S. alliance marks its 70th anniversary.