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Roundtable With Korean Journalists
Secretary Clinton Roundtable With Korean Journalists
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Seoul, South Korea
February 20, 2009
MODERATOR: So it's my great pleasure to welcome you, Madame Secretary, and I think I'll just ask how you'd like to begin, maybe say a couple of things. You've had a long day.
SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, I am delighted to have this opportunity to sit down with all of you, and I'm very pleased to be back here in Korea. I have very pleasant memories of my prior times here, and now to be back and to be in the position I'm in representing my country and working with your country on so many important issues is a pure personal delight. So I'm looking forward to your questions.
QUESTION: You seem to look very happy and joyful during the conversation with the students in Ewha University. How was that, and how does it feel to be back in Korea, not as First Lady but as the Secretary of State?
SECRETARY CLINTON: I loved the event at Ewha University. I had the vantage point of looking
ENDS
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