Photos from the U.S.-Korea Partnership Tour: Growing Opportunities in Peoria - Peoria Journal Star

August 16, 2010
By Fred Zwicky/ Journal Star
 
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Ambassador Han Duk-soo speaks about the benefits to both the United States and South Korea if the Korean Free Trade Agreement is passed to area business leaders during a "Growing Jobs Across America: Opportunities in Illinois" event at the Hotel Pere Marquette Monday.
 
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Ambassador Han Duk-soo visits with Congressman Aaron Schock after speaking about the benefits to both the United States and South Korea if the Korean Free Trade Agreement is passed to area business leaders during a "Growing Jobs Across America: Opportunities in Illinois" event at the Hotel Pere Marquette Monday.
 
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Peoria city council person Ryan Spain presents Ambassador Han Duk-soo with a Peoria Memories book.
 
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Ambassador Han Duk-soo, left, visits with Lawrence Tangel, C.E.O. for Enercon, based in East Peoria. Tangel said that Enercon has 20 employees working in the Asia market with a dozen projects in Korea. Tangel said that if the Korean Free Trade Agreement passes, "It would make American products more acceptable....it would drop the costs of using our products and allow us to present a more integration with Caterpillar projects."

Source: Peoria Journal Star