Ambassador Dizon-De Vega receives the courtesy call of the 25-member delegation from the DILG-PPSC MPSA participating in the Foreign Academic Study in the Republic of Korea led by DILG Assistant Secretary Juabilly P. Racho. Ambassador Dizon-De Vega was joined by Third Secretary and Vice Consul Reisha Olavario.
27 October 2024, Seoul. The DILG-PPSC MPSA delegation paid a courtesy visit to the Philippine Embassy in Seoul on 21 October 2024 as part of their Foreign Academic Study program incorporated in their MPSA graduate course. The delegation received a warm welcome from Ambassador Theresa Dizon-De Vega who was joined by Third Secretary and Vice Consul Reisha Olavario of the Political and Economic Section, Agricultural Attaché Lev Nikko Macalintal and Second Secretary Ernest Joseph Diga at the 2nd Floor Sentro Rizal Hall of the Embassy.
The delegation was led by Assistant Secretary Juabilly P. Racho of the DILG Peace and Order Department and composed of public officials from various LGUs and agencies of the Philippine government such as the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), Department of Agriculture (DA), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA), Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), Department of Justice (DOJ), Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).
The Foreign Academic Study portion of the graduate program serves as an integrative activity for the modules concerning Comparative Global Models of Public Safety and Multilevel Security Cooperation.
Ambassador Dizon-De Vega expressed her appreciation to the delegation for choosing the Republic of Korea for their Foreign Academic Study (FAS). She highlighted the importance of the PPSC MA program to address the evolving concept of human security, which now includes law enforcement, health, justice, climate change, cybersecurity, among other issues. As an archipelagic nation with a dispersed population, the Philippines needs experts to help address the impacts of climate change, public health, and cybercrime.
The Ambassador also shared that the Philippines plays an active role in terms of participating in ROK-led summits and dialogues on norms building on the ethical and rational use of AI technologies in governance. She also noted that the ROK has best practices in various aspects of public security, cybercrime, and mobilization of resources which the students can learn from during their visits and interactions with ROK agencies. END
