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BGR Government Affairs has signed an eight-month $225K agreement to represent the interests of South Korea’s National Assembly in the US.
The pact calls for strategic guidance and outreach to US government officials, NGOs and key decision makers.
The work kicked off April 10, just ahead of South Korea president Yoon Suk Yeol’s state visit to the US this week to mark the 70th anniversary of the US/South Korea security pact.
French president Emmanuel Macron is the only other leader who was invited by the Biden administration for a state dinner.
Yoon will address a joint session of Congress on April 27.
BGR’s South Korea team includes Maya Seiden, international & trade practice co-head; I&T senior advisor Hunter Strupp and principal Mark Tavlarides; and PR principal Frank Ahrens.
Kuwait has hired Mercury Public Affairs to handle strategic communications in connection with the Oct. 24 dedication of the Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm Memorial in Washington.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky has sanctioned his former press secretary Iuliia Mendel for allegedly promoting Russian propaganda.
Gabriel Attal, who heads France’s Renaissance Partie, is relying on Gabriel Laurent Eshaghian, a Woodland Hills, CA-based real estate, aviation and investment executive, to boost his profile in the US ahead of France’s April 2027 elections.
TSG Advocates has inked a $240K one-year pact to provide PA and government relations services to the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency.
KARV is providing strategic communications to the American-Uzbek Business and Investment Council to promote US economic ties with the central Asian country.
