External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar with South Korea’s Foreign Minister Park Jin in New Delhi on Friday, April 7, 2023.
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Automobile large Hyundai is a symbol of India-South Korea relations, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar mentioned on Friday. Speaking at an occasion welcoming the Foreign Minister of South Korea, Park Jin, Mr. Jaishankar mentioned India-South Korea relations embraced a big range of components like financial, political, tradition and people-to-people ties and appreciated the curiosity of Korean residents in Buddhism.
“Hyundai in many ways is a symbol of the relationship that we have. We have also expanded our relationship today to cover the economic development cooperation fund; we are doing projects under that. And we’ve recently had a very large delegation of Korean Buddhists who actually walked 1200 km,” mentioned Mr. Jaishankar, welcoming the visiting dignitary.
The South Korean Foreign Minister will go to the Hyundari plant in Chennai which is one of the biggest vehicle centres of the South Korean automaker. In his remarks, Mr. Park Jin highlighted India’s function in international affairs and introduced the Indian Presidency of G20 as a main milestone.
Key function
“India has been playing an increasingly pivotal role in the international arena and is set to further impact the world as the President of the G20 this year. India has also demonstrated to the world its cultural prowess with its recent Oscar wins and I must say the ‘Natu Natu’ song and dance has captivated the world,” mentioned Mr. Park Jin. The visiting Minister additionally met with Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar.
India and South Korea are marking the 50 th yr of diplomatic relationship and Mr. Jaishankar reminded that saying, “You have come at a very good time, because our trade is very good, our political relations are very cooperative.”
