US official spotlights shipbuilding cooperation in Seoul, renews concerns over Network Act

A senior US State Department official said she gained fresh insight into the growing demands of naval architecture and workforce development during a shipbuilding-focused roundtable in Seoul on Wednesday, underscoring Washington’s push to deepen cooperation with South Korea in the sector. Sarah Rogers, US under secretary of state for public diplomacy, said in a Wednesday post on X that she “learned tons about the demands — and tremendous potential — of naval-architecture engineering and workforc