President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met senior executives from leading South Korean companies in the capital Seoul during his official visit to South Korea. The meetings, held at the hotel where Erdoğan was staying, took place in two groups with delegations from companies operating in technology, electronics, biotechnology and chemicals.
The first group included LG Electronics CEO Lyu Jae-cheol, Celltrion CEO Seo Jin-seok, SK Chemicals and SK Plasma CEO Jaehyun Ahn, and Chung Euisun, who heads Hyundai Motor Group. The second group included Samsung CEO Roh Tae-moon, Chemtronics Wits Chairman Kim Bokyun, and Chan-hyuk Chun, vice president and head of global new business at Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO).
Two ministers also attended the meetings
Those attending the meetings from Türkiye included Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır, AK Party Deputy Chairman and Head of Health Policies Halit Yerebakan, President of the Türkiye Investment and Finance Office Ahmet Burak Dağlıoğlu, Chief Foreign Policy and Security Adviser to the President Akif Çağatay Kılıç, and Chief Adviser to the President Zafer Çubukçu. No detailed information was shared about the content of the meetings.
Some of the companies on the list have long-standing investments in Türkiye. Hyundai has been producing automobiles at its factory in İzmit since 1997. In the energy sector, the four agreements signed between the two countries during the visit included texts on nuclear power plant financing and critical minerals.
Target of $15 billion
Throughout the visit, Erdoğan emphasized the goal of increasing trade between the two countries to $15 billion and said they wanted to “carry their shared past toward new horizons for a prosperous future” with South Korea. The president left South Korea after the meetings with the company executives.
Photos: TCCB / Murat Kula / AA
