[SUMMIT] President Lee attends naming ceremony at Hanwha Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia

Philadephia, Pennsylvania — President Lee Jae Myung visited the Hanwha Philly Shipyard in Philadelphia to attend the naming ceremony of the State of Maine, a national security and training vessel commissioned by the U.S. Maritime Administration. The naming ceremony, began at 4 p.m. Tuesday (local time) marks the official christening of a ship and prays for its safe operation. The shipyard is a symbolic site of the South Korea–U.S. shipbuilding cooperation project, known as Make American Shipbuilding Great Again (MASGA), which played a decisive role in finalizing the recent tariff negotiations. Founded in 1801 as a U.S. Navy shipyard and privatized in 1997, the Philadelphia Hanwha Shipyard was acquired by Hanwha Group in December, last year. This marked the first time a South Korean shipbuilding company has taken over a U.S.-based shipyard. The South Korean president was accompanied by Korea’s Ministers of Industry and Foreign Affairs, senior presidential advisors on security and policy, as well as Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro and U.S. Senator Todd Young, underscoring the commWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times