President Lee to Meet Japanese Delegation to Korea-Japan Business Conference, Likely to Urge Role in Expanding Exchanges

▲ President Lee Jae-myung speaks at a meeting of senior presidential secretaries held at Cheong Wa Dae on October 22.

President Lee Jae-myung will meet with Yoshinobu Tsutsui, chairman of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) and the Japanese head of the Korea-Japan Business Conference, at Cheong Wa Dae this afternoon (October 23).

Keiichi Iwata, chairman of Sumitomo Chemical, Toshiaki Higashihara, chairman of Hitachi, and Ryu Jin, chairman of the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) and the Korean head of the conference, will also be present.

Cheong Wa Dae stated, "President Lee plans to call on the Japanese delegation for the Japanese business community to play a role in expanding economic cooperation and people-to-people exchanges between South Korea and Japan."

Launched in 1983, the Korea-Japan Business Conference is the highest-level dialogue hosted by the private business sectors of both countries.

Chairman Tsutsui visited South Korea on the occasion of attending the 33rd Korea-Japan Business Conference held in Seoul on this day.

(Photo courtesy of Cheong Wa Dae Press Corps, Yonhap News)

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