President Lee Jae-myung returned to Korea through Seoul Air Base on the 24th after a six-day, five-night trip to India and Vietnam.
Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, Minister of the Interior and Safety Yoon Ho-jung, Democratic Party of Korea leader Jung Chung-rae, Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik, and Senior Presidential Secretary for Political Affairs Hong Ik-pyo came out to greet the president and first lady.
Amid extreme instability in the international situation due to the Middle East war, the president held summits with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary and President To Lam to discuss ways to expand economic and supply chain cooperation.
They pledged future-oriented cooperation with the two countries in a wide range of areas, including Korea's key industries such as shipbuilding, nuclear power, and semiconductors, as well as artificial intelligence (AI), the cultural industry, and people-to-people exchanges.