President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan met with President Lee Jae-myung on the third day of his official engagements in South Korea. Erdoğan, who arrived at the Presidential Palace in Seoul, was officially welcomed by Lee.
The ceremony began with the national anthems of the two countries. Erdoğan then saluted the welcoming delegation, which included units dressed in traditional Korean attire. The two leaders subsequently greeted the ministers and officials in their delegations.
The footage shows Erdoğan and Lee walking down the steps to the ceremony area hand in hand with their wives, Emine Erdoğan and Kim Hea-kyung, who were wearing hanbok, Korea's traditional attire. After the ceremony, the two leaders watched a martial arts demonstration characteristic of the Far East before again walking hand in hand up the palace steps to the meeting room.
Four ministers in the delegation
Erdoğan is accompanied on his Seoul engagements by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar, National Defense Minister Yaşar Güler, Industry and Technology Minister Mehmet Fatih Kacır, Presidential Communications Director Burhanettin Duran, AK Party Deputy Chairman and Head of Health Policies Halit Yerebakan, and Defense Industry President Haluk Görgün.
Defense, nuclear energy and trade on the agenda
Erdoğan's first official visit to South Korea in eight years will continue through November 4. The talks are expected to address all aspects of the strategic partnership between the two countries and result in the signing of various agreements. In remarks to South Korean news agency Yonhap before the visit, Erdoğan listed the defense industry, nuclear energy, advanced technology, artificial intelligence and renewable energy as key areas of cooperation, and recalled the $15 billion trade volume target between the two countries.
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