South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is scheduled to meet the leaders of Thailand and the Philippines in Manila next week, adding bilateral talks to his ASEAN summit program before a visit to China for APEC.
South Korean presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said Friday in a press release that Lee would meet Philippine President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. and Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul separately on Nov. 16, alongside the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit.
Kang said Lee would also have lunch in Shenzhen on Nov. 18 with South Korean residents living in southern China. She put the number of South Korean nationals in the region at about 24,000.
Lee is scheduled to attend ASEAN meetings in Manila on Nov. 16 and 17, then spend two days in Shenzhen for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, Kang said. The planned meetings add bilateral stops to Lee’s appearances at the ASEAN and APEC summits.
