Speaking a State luncheon in Washington held in honor of visiting Republic of Korea President Yoon Suk-Yeol, Blinken noted that Julie was just five years old when, in 1977, her family moved from Seoul to California.

US Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken has noted the extraordinary contribution made by the current US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung on the 120th anniversary of the arrival of the first Korean immigrants to America.

The Secretary of State said that today, Julie’s father’s engineering company is working on technology that will help the United States, Korea, and other partners who are joined in the Artemis Accord return astronauts to the Moon, including the first woman and first person of color. And Julie is the United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka.