Ambassador Theresa Dizon-De Vega leads the Philippine Embassy’s Year-End Evaluation and Operation Retooling 2023 on 27 December 2023. Section heads and heads of attached agencies present accomplishment and plans under portfolios. Under the one country team approach, the Philippine Embassy team also identifies opportunities to further improve the delivery of services and PH-ROK bilateral relations during the operational retooling session.
28 December 2023, Seoul. The Philippine Embassy in Seoul conducted its Year End Evaluation and Operational Retooling 2023 on 27 December 2023. The Year-End Evaluation and Operational Retooling takes stock of the Embassy’s accomplishments in 2023 and discusses new projects and plans, as well as strategies for improved delivery of services for 2024.
The Planning Session showed that 2023 was a productive and meaningful year for the Embassy, especially in forging stronger political, economic, and people-to-people ties to elevate PH-ROK relations, including being engaged in milestones in relations such as the signing of the PH-ROK Free Trade Agreement. It was also a year where the Embassy continued to provide essential consular services, introduce cultural and community sports programs, organize relevant seminars and workshops, and introduce improvements in the Embassy infrastructure for the empowerment and upskilling of the Filipino community and to better serve Filipinos in South Korea. In preparation for the 75th Anniversary of PH-ROK Bilateral Relations, Ambassador Theresa Dizon-De Vega led the charting of a year-long calendar of commemorative activities of the Embassy and attached agencies and tasked section heads and heads of attached agencies to create meaningful projects that will elevate PH-ROK cooperation and be beneficial to the Filipino community.
Ambassador Dizon-De Vega chaired the year-end evaluation and operational retooling. The session was attended by officers and personnel of the Embassy and representatives of attached agencies from the Office of the Philippine Defense and Armed Forces Attache, Philippine Trade and Investment Center-Seoul, Philippine Department of Tourism-Korea, Philippine Agriculture Office-Seoul, Migrant Workers Office-Overseas Workers Welfare Administration, and PAG-IBIG FUND. END
