President Moon's 'Speech and Writings Collection' Published... Records of the Third Year of State Administration

A collection of speeches and writings documenting President Moon Jae-in's third year in office. (Photo by Cheong Wa Dae)

[Asia Economy Reporter Son Sun-hee] The Blue House announced on the 12th that it has published the third collection of speeches and writings compiling President Moon Jae-in's record of state administration in his third year. It contains President Moon's words, writings, and photos from May 10 of last year to May 9 of this year.

The speech collection includes a total of 295 items, such as major speeches, remarks at various meetings and events, contributions, and social network service (SNS) messages. It also contains photos capturing the footprints of the past year, including on-site visits and overseas trips.

The collection of writings and speeches, published under the title "Certain Change, Together with the People," categorizes state tasks and strategies around 42 keywords and includes related messages. The appendix records the process of responding to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19) situation.

The speech and writing collections will be sequentially distributed from this day to public institutions, national and public libraries, small libraries, and other multi-use facilities. E-books can be downloaded for free from the Blue House and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism websites, as well as online bookstores.

Additionally, an English speech collection, selecting 88 major speeches and translated, has also been published. The English anthology will be distributed to 320 locations, including foreign diplomatic missions in Korea, overseas Korean cultural centers, domestic foreign press support centers, central government ministries, and major university libraries at home and abroad. Like the Korean speech collection, it can be downloaded in e-book format from the Blue House English website.