New Delhi: South Korean President Park Guen-hye arrived here on Wednesday on a four-day state visit, during which she will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and both sides are expected to pitch for maximising their partnership in several areas.
Park, the country’s first woman president, is being accompanied by a 70-member business delegation. She was received by Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur.
The two sides are to discuss bilateral, regional and global issues. The visit will expand and strengthen the India-Korea Strategic Partnership.
The daughter of former president Park Chung-hee, who ruled South Korea for almost two decades, Park took over as president in February last year.
The Korea Herald, in an editorial, said Seoul and New Delhi “have yet to maximize cooperation”.
It said that though South Korea and India celebrated the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations in 2013, “it can still hardly be said that the third- and fourth-largest economies in Asia have achieved the fullest potential of mutual cooperation”. (IANS)