ODA 2024 budget set at all-time high

Han Kyung-pil (L), a senior official at the office for government policy coordination, gives a briefing on the budget for South Korea's official development assistance (ODA) for next year at the government complex in Seoul on June 29, 2023. Presided over by Prime Minister Han Duck-soo earlier in the day, an ODA meeting set the budget at a record high of 6.8 trillion won (US$5.2 billion) to provide humanitarian assistance especially to countries in emergency situations, such as war-torn Ukraine. The budget will be divided among 1,978 ODA projects and will be carried out through 47 agencies. (Yonhap)

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