2023-09-05 21:06:00
On the 5th, President Yoon attended the banquet for Koreans in Indonesia. <사진=연합뉴스> President Yoon Seok-yeol, who arrived in Indonesia yesterday to attend the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Summit, held a dinner meeting with compatriots as the first schedule of his visit.
At a meeting held at a hotel in Jakarta, President Yoon said, “When we started building apartments in the 1980s because of a shortage of trees in our country, all windows and door frames were imported from Indonesia.” They were all imported from Indonesia,” he said, introducing the relationship between the two countries.
At the same time, he said that the annual trade amount, which was less than 200 million dollars when the two countries established diplomatic relations 50 years ago, recorded 26 billion dollars last year.
President Yoon said that he visited Bali to attend the G20 summit in November of last year. “, he emphasized.
“You Koreans supported the Indonesian government and local community in the process of overcoming the corona crisis, demonstrating Korea’s mutual aid and Indonesia’s ‘Gotong Royong’ spirit,” he said. I am really proud of the 5,000 compatriots.”
‘Gotongroyong’ in Indonesian means ‘to shoulder together’.
He added, “In the process of the Korean government aiming to become a ‘global backbone’, the first people to take care of are our compatriots.”
Referring to the relevance of this meeting to the Korea-US-Japan Summit held at Camp David last month, President Yoon said, “Since a common order of norms is necessary to support ASEAN countries in the Indo-Pacific region, let’s create a foundation for problem-solving while coordinating among the three countries. spokesman Lee Do-woon told a local briefing.
About 180 people attended the event, including Foreign Minister Park Jin, National Security Office Director Cho Tae-yong, Economic Secretary Choi Sang-mok, Korean Presidents, Democratic and Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, and Korean entrepreneurs.
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