Australian Embassy
Republic of Korea
Embassy address: 11th Fl, Kyobo Building, 1 Jongno 1-Ga, Jongno-Gu, Seoul - Telephone: 02 2003 0100

The following list (J-Z) guides you to major Australian presences in Korea.

Korea-Australia Foundation (KAF)
26th Floor, POSCO Centre Building, 892 Daechi 4-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Tel: 02 3457 0283
Fax: 02 3457 1941
www.korea-australiafund.org 
The KAF is run by the company POSCO and helps foster relations between Korea and Australia but from a Korean base. The main component is the exchange of Korean students to Australian schools, as well as aiding and supporting Korean journalists visiting Australia.

Latt Theatre
Latt Children`s Theatre, Unibooks Bldg., 514-1, Dogok-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
Tel: 02 560 0979
Fax: 02 560 0990
www.lattct.com 
This children’s theatre was conceived as part of an effort to expose Koreans to the English language. Headed by Australian artistic director Roger Rynd, it has been operating since 2002 and is dedicated to producing and presenting world class English language performances for young audiences. There are usually two productions a year, mostly musicals, which continue for about five months each. The performances are bilingual with alternate verses in Korean and English. The theatre brings together a talented cast and crew of Korean technicians and foreign artists (including Australians, New Zealanders and Americans) to bring an annual mix of in house performances and workshops combined with a national touring program.

Macquarie Group
4th Floor Hanwha, 110 Sokong-dong, Joong-gu, Seoul
Tel: 02 3782 2200
Fax: 02 3782 2299
www.macquarie.com/kr/en/index.htm 
The Macquarie Group (Macquarie) is headquartered in Australia, where we are a leading provider of a full range of investment banking, financial markets and retail financial services. Macquarie comprises Macquarie Bank Limited (MBL) and its subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide. Macquarie Bank listed on the Australian Stock Exchange in 1996 and has reported successive years of record growth and profits since 1992, and currently employs over 6800 people in 23 countries. At Macquarie in Korea, we provide a comprehensive range of services including equity sales and research, equity capital markets, corporate finance, infrastructure funds management, property-related financial services including REIT management, portfolio funds management, leasing and asset financing, and brokering of commodity futures. We've been active in Korea since 1996 and now have over 229 staff working here. We've also been awarded a Presidential Citation in 2004 for our contribution to foreign investment in Korea.

Meat & Livestock Australia
11th Floor, Kyobo Building, 1 Jongno 1-ga, Jongno-gu, Seoul
Tel: 02 720 7091
Fax: 02 733 8337
www.ilovebeef.co.kr 
Meat & Livestock Australia Limited (MLA) is a non-profit company that provides services to Australian red meat industry including producers, processors, exporters, and retailers. The Korean market for MLA is the fastest growing market for Australian meat exports and the third biggest in the world. Funded by producers and the Australian Government, its core activities are working to improve market access, building demand for Australian red meat and conducting research and development to provide competitive advantages for the industry.

Outback Steakhouse
www.outback.co.kr
The American owned Outback Steakhouse is a popular restaurant chain throughout Korea, using the Australian outback as the theme. The restaurants are decorated with Australian icons such as boomerangs, pictures of kangaroos, and koalas. To further show their dedication to the theme, the items on the menu are named after places and animals found in Australia (e.g. Ayers Rock Strip and Kookaburra Wings). Despite this theme, the food is not authentically Australian, being based more on American cuisine. Outback Steakhouse also serves Foster's Lager, a brand of Australian beer that is more popular overseas than it is in Australia. During the Christmas season, some restaurants hang their Christmas trees upside down from the ceiling to emphasize their origin from "the land down under”.

Pusan International Film Festival:
Annex 2-1, 1393 Woo 1-dong Yachting Center, Haeundae-gu, Busan
Tel: 051 747 3010
Fax: 051 747 3012
Email: program@piff.org
www.piff.org 
After only 10 editions the Pusan International Film Festival has risen to become one of East Asia’s biggest film festivals. The festival showcases some of the region’s best films and has played a major part in the rise of Korean film industry. There is a strong focus on local documentaries and short films as well as forums for film makers to meet prospective financiers, distributors or producers from the region. Australian films, such as Sarah Watt’s Look Both Ways and Sejong Park’s Birthday Boy, have also featured strongly in the past. The festival usually takes place in October or November.

Queensland Government Trade and Investment Office Korea
16th Fl. Star Tower, 737 Yeoksam-dong, Kangnam-gu, Seoul
Tel: 02 2112 2390
Fax: 02 2112 2394
www.qld.or.kr 
It encourages two way economic relations between Queensland and Korea. The office supports Queensland businesses in forging new export markets in Korea, Korean businesses looking to import Queensland products or services, Korean industries in identifying investment opportunities in Queensland, and Queensland Government agencies and industry dodies.

Sejong Park
Sejong Park was born and raised in Korea. He moved to Australia six years ago, where he worked in 2D animation and as an illustrator. In 2003, he was accepted into the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) and he graduated in April 2004 with a Master of Arts in Digital Media. Birthday Boy is his first 3D CGI film and one of the first films at AFTRS to use digital pre-visualization. Set during the Korean war, the film follows Manuk on his birthday, where he is playing on the village streets, imagining his father's daily life as a soldier at the frontlines. After playing, Manuk returns home to find a recently delivered parcel. Thinking it is a present for him, Manuk opens the parcel, and its contents change his life forever. Birthday Boy was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 2005.

Seoul English Village
www.sev.go.kr
The Seoul English Village (SEV) opened in December 2004 to help children in Seoul learn and experience the English culture. The SEV, the first institution of its kind, aims to help young Koreans become better global citizens by encouragingthem to develop their English language skills in an open and entertaining learning environment. Funded by the Seoul City governmentand the English language institute Herald Academy, the SEV is able to accommodate over 300 students a week. During their stay the students learn English through a number of cultural programs including going through immigration, checking into a hotel, opening a bank account, ordering food at a restaurant, and reporting lost items at the police station. In cooperation ABC Asia Pacific has invested over AU$30,000 to build a broadcasting studio, where students can learn to make a TV show. ABC Asia Pacific has also invested in the ABC Hall where students learn about Australia by completing various missions.

Tourism Australia
20th Floor, Youngpoong Building, 33 Seorin-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul
Tel: 02 399 6502
Fax: 02 399 6507
www.australia.com 
The Tourism office of Australia specialises in marketing and public relations for Koreans considering visiting Australia. Koreais currently the 6th largest tourist market for Australia, and continues to be one of the fast growing sectors. Tourism Australia works in conjunction with travel agents to provide information booklets, city guides and television commercials. As well as working with the travel agencies, Tourism Australia is also involved with promoting Australia through the airline carriers, Korean Air, Asiana and QANTAS. Of interest is the Visiting Journalist Program (VJP) which sends Korean journalists to Australia to promote its culture and lifestyle.

Tourism Queensland
20th Floor, Youngpoong Building, 33 Seorin-dong, Jongno-ku, Seoul
Tel: 02 399 5768
Fax: 02 399 7878
www.queensland.or.kr
Tourism Queensland offers similar services to Tourism Australia, with a focus on Queensland. Queensland is the second most popular Korean holiday destination in Australia after Sydney, offering hot sunny days year round, long white beaches and crystal clear water. Apart from the popular destinations of Brisbane and the Gold Coast, Tourism Queensland is also promoting north Queensland, in particular Cairns and Noosa, as secondary destinations. As their slogan goes, “Where else but Queensland?”

Tourism Western Australia
Room 717, Yongbieocheonga, 75, Naesoo-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul
Tel: 02 6351 5156
Fax: 02 6320 9355
www.westernaustralia.com/kr
Tourism Western Australia is responsible for promoting Western Australia as an attractive holiday, event, convention and incentive travel destination, nationally and overseas and enhancing the tourism industry, infrastructure and product base. Its Korean representative office opened to promote Western Australia and stengthen its marketing activities in Korea in October 2005. The Korean office is involved in on-line and off-line marketing activities with airlines and travel agents as well as media.

UN Cemetery in Busan: Australian Memorial
Daeyon 4-dong, Nam-gu, Busan
Tel: 051 624 2165 or 051 625 0614
Fax: 051 624 2165
Email: unmck@bsnamgu.go.kr
http://unmck.or.kr/eng/park/intro/park_in_object.htm 
The cemetery was built in 1951 as a collective effort by the UN to honour the sacrifices and services offered by the UN Forces during the Korean War. While most countries have now transferredtheir bodies back home, 2,300 soldiers still reside in the cemetery, including 281 from Australia. The Australians are buried in the west side, where an Australian Monument was devoted to them in 1998.

Western Australian Trade and Investments Office, Government of Western Australian
11th Floor Kyobo Building, 1 Jongno 1-ga, Jongno-gu Seoul
Tel: 02 722 1217
Fax: 02 722 1218
www.westernaustralia.or.kr
The purpose of the recently opened Western Australian trade and investments office is to promote and facilitate Korean investment in West Australia (WA). The state covers almost half the country but is scarcely populated, leaving large areas open to investment. The office provides accurate information on all the different industries including tourism, education and natural recourses.

*. Three interns from Sydney University (Mr David Marin-Guzman, Mr Jordan Kent, and Ms Susan Tran) prepared this list along with Public Diplomacy Section in January 2006.

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