Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Egypt Hong Jinwook, visited the Diplomatic Studies Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and delivered a lecture on Tuesday to diplomatic attachés who joined the Ministry last December.
Ambassador Hong introduced the bilateral relations between South Korea and Egypt and shared recent developments in the relations in the framework of ‘Comprehensive Cooperative Partnership’ which the two countries adopted during President Abdel Fattah El Sisi’s visit to Seoul in 2016, as well as the situation in the Korean Peninsula and the East Asia.
He explained that Seoul and Cairo are enjoying the excellent relations as witnessed from several win-win projects such co-manufactures of K9 self-propelled Howitzer, Cairo Metro rolling stocks in Egypt, Korea’s participation in El-Dabaa Nuclear Power plant project, and the joint air show of Korean and Egyptian air forces over the Giza Pyramids.
The Ambassador highlighted that the inter-governmental relations of the two countries are already super including high-level exchanges such as the President Moon’s visit to Egypt in January 2022 and telephone conversation between the new President of South Korea Yoon and his Egyptian counterpart in October 2022.
In this context, he stressed the importance of the public diplomacy and shared the Embassy’s activities which aim to enhance the mutual understanding of South Korea and Egypt.
Lastly, he stressed that there is still a way to go and hoped that the new diplomatic attachés will play a role for further flourishing bilateral relations.
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