President Lee Jae-myung set out for home after completing his longest overseas tour since taking office, a 7-night, 11-day trip. Lee plans to oversee a Cabinet meeting and a series of ministry briefings to review state affairs.
On the 2nd (local time), after a meeting with overseas Koreans in Frankfurt, Germany, Lee departed for Seoul Air Base aboard Air Force One. The trip took him to the United States and three South American countries, with a stopover in Germany.
Returning on the 3rd, Lee will go to the Blue House, hold a closed-door meeting, and review issues including the real estate and stock markets.
On the morning of the 4th, he will chair a Cabinet meeting. In the afternoon, he will resume briefings from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Intellectual Property, the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment (MCEE), the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission, the Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL), the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, the Korea Fair Trade Commission, and their affiliated agencies and offices.
On the morning of the 5th, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Unification, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs will deliver their briefings. The same afternoon will feature reports from the Ministry of Education, the National Education Commission, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, the Ministry of Personnel Management, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Government Legislation, and the Office for Government Policy Coordination.
Meanwhile, on this tour Lee visited San Francisco in the United States, as well as Brazil, Chile, Argentina, and Germany. In the United States, he met with chief executives of leading big tech corporations, including Jensen Huang (Nvidia) and Sam Altman (OpenAI), to pursue investment cooperation in artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductors.
Through a series of summits with the leaders of three South American countries, he focused on expanding cooperation on supply chains for critical minerals, crude oil, and energy.