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President Yoon returns home after an 8-day, 6-night trip to the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland

▲ President Yoon Seok-yeol and First Lady Kim Gun-hee, who completed their 8-day, 6-night trip to the United Arab Emirates and Switzerland, greet each other as they return home via Airport Seongnam Seoul on the 21st and disembarked Air Force Unit 1 . 2023.1.21 Yonhap News

President Yoon Seok-yeol returned to Korea on the 21st after an eight-day, six-night trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Switzerland.

Air Force Unit 1, a private plane carrying President Yoon and others, arrived at Seoul Airport in Seongnam this morning.

President Yoon did not hold a separate flight meeting on the way home.

At the airport on this day, People’s Power Emergency Response Committee Chairman Jin-seok Jeong, Presidential Chief of Staff Dae-ki Kim, Public Administration and Security Minister Sang-min Lee, and First Vice Minister of Affairs Foreigner Cho Hyun- dong came out and received President Yoon and his wife.

During his first trip this year, President Yoon focused on ‘economic diplomacy’.

Through the first state visit since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Korea and the United Arab Emirates on the 14th and 17th, they attracted investments worth 30 billion dollars (about 37.26 trillion won) and signed 48 joint memorandums understanding (MoUs) from different areas.

During his second visit to Switzerland, he declared himself ‘Korea’s No. 1 seller’ and was actively involved in sales diplomacy.

On the 18th and 19th, President Yoon attended the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), also known as the Davos Forum, for the first time in nine years as Korean president, expanding his contact with global CEOs and invest in Korea He asked