South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, proper, shakes arms with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni earlier than their talks on the U.N. headquarters in New York, Sept. 24, 2025, on the sidelines of the U.N. Common Meeting. Yonhap
President Lee Jae Myung and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni are set to carry summit talks Monday, throughout which they’re anticipated to give attention to cooperation within the fields of commerce, funding and cutting-edge applied sciences, together with synthetic intelligence.
Meloni arrived in South Korea on Saturday for a three-day official go to as a part of her Asia journey, which additionally contains stops in Japan and Oman.
Through the assembly, the 2 leaders are anticipated to debate methods to bolster cooperation in commerce, funding, synthetic intelligence, protection and semiconductors, amongst different areas, Cheong Wa Dae stated.
The talks will mark their second summit assembly after they first met on the sidelines of the U.N. Common Meeting in New York in September final yr.
It marks the primary time in 19 years that an Italian chief has visited Seoul for bilateral summit talks. Meloni is the primary European chief to go to South Korea since Lee took workplace in June final yr.
Italy is South Korea’s fourth-largest buying and selling associate within the European Union and is visited by roughly 1 million South Koreans yearly, in line with Cheong Wa Dae.
