President Yoon will travel to the Philippines, Singapore, and Laos from the 6th to the 11th.

President Yoon Suk Yeol will make a state visit to the Philippines and Singapore for a six-day visit from the 6th with his wife, Kim Gun-hee, and attend the Korea-ASEAN Summit in Laos.

Kim Tae-hyo, the first deputy chief of the National Security Office, held a briefing today and said President Yoon will hold summits in the Philippines and Singapore, respectively, to discuss ways to strengthen bilateral relations and cooperate.

He then moved to Laos, held a summit with ASEAN, a political and economic alliance of Southeast Asian countries, and said he would attend a series of summits involving ASEAN+3, or three countries, Korea, China, and Japan.

An official from the presidential office said that the Korea-Japan summit is also being discussed on the premise that Japan's new Prime Minister Ishiba will attend the ASEAN meeting, and that it will be meaningful for the leaders of Korea and Japan to face each other for the first time and continue the purpose of shuttle diplomacy.

However, he added that the three-nation summit between Korea, China and Japan was held in Seoul in May, so it is unlikely to be promoted by the ASEAN meeting.In addition to the summit meetings in the Philippines and Singapore, President
Yoon will continue his state dinners, business forums, and visits to Korean companies.

In particular, the Philippines will actively engage in sales diplomacy, such as supporting Korean companies' orders for large infrastructure projects, and will also give a speech on the vision of unification on the Korean Peninsula at the Singapore Lecture hosted by the Singapore Government-affiliated Research Institute.

Park Chun-seop, senior presidential secretary for economic affairs, explained that ASEAN is one of the world's top five economies and is one of the top three export markets, accounting for 17% of our exports, and that it is rich in core minerals and raw materials.

He added, "The importance of our strategy is growing in terms of economic security and we have a complementary industrial structure," adding, "This visit is expected to serve as an opportunity to further expand the ASEAN-Korea economic cooperation relationship."