SEOUL, June 19 (Reuters) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol departed Seoul for Paris on Monday to support his country's bid to host Expo 2030, part of a foreign trip that will also include meetings with the leaders of France and Vietnam, his office said.
Yoon will address the general assembly of the International Bureau of Expositions (BIE), the organiser of the world fair, to promote South Korea's bid.
Yoon will then head to Vietnam on Thursday for a three-day state visit, accompanied by a 205-person business delegation, his office said.
1 salesman" for South Korea, has made business deals and "sales diplomacy" a core element of his foreign trips since taking office.
"It will be the largest business delegation since the launch of the Yoon Suk Yeol administration," Choi Sang-mok, senior presidential secretary for economy, said on Tuesday.
Persons:
Yoon Suk Yeol, Yoon, Ukraine's Odesa, Emmanuel Macron, Yoon Suk, Choi, mok, Soo, hyang Choi, Gerry Doyle
Organizations:
Paris, International, South, NATO, Thomson
Locations:
SEOUL, Seoul, France, Vietnam, South Korean, Busan, Saudi Arabia's Riyadh, Italy's Rome, Madrid, South Korea