Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh to pay official visit to South Korea
VGP - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his spouse will pay an official visit to South Korea from June 30 to July 3.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his spouse will pay an official visit to South Korea from June 30 to July 3, 2024
The visit will be made at the invitation of Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and his spouse, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Thursday.
Viet Nam and South Korea set up diplomatic relations on December 22, 1992, and upgraded their relationship to a Strategic Cooperative Partnership in October 2009 and a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in December 2022.
South Korea is Viet Nam’s largest foreign investor, second largest development aid provider, and third largest labor and trade partner.
Two-way trade turnover reached US$76.1 billion in 2023 and US$25.5 billion in the first four months this year, up 4 percent from 2023.
As of April 2024, South Korea had 9,957 projects in Viet Nam, with a total registered capital of more than US$87 billion.
Approximately 3.6 million Korean tourists visited Viet Nam last year, while more than 500,000 Vietnamese travelers selected the Northeast Asian nation as it iss one of their favorite destinations./.
