{"id":46257,"date":"2026-04-20T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=46257"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T06:38:07","slug":"south-koreas-lee-in-india-for-talks-on-shipping-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/south-koreas-lee-in-india-for-talks-on-shipping-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea&#8217;s Lee in India for talks on shipping, AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>India gave a red-carpet welcome for South Korean President Lee Jae-myung in New Delhi on Monday, with shipbuilding and artificial intelligence high on the agenda for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amidst ongoing supply chain instability and a global economic crisis stemming from the aftermath of the Middle East conflict, the Republic of Korea and India are emerging as increasingly vital strategic partners for one another,&#8221; Lee, on his first visit to India, said in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Talks will include discussions on &#8220;shipbuilding, trade, investments, AI, semiconductors, critical and emerging technologies&#8221;, India&#8217;s foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee and Modi will also discuss &#8220;continuing constructive cooperation for the sake of peace on the Korean Peninsula and within the region&#8221;, South Korea&#8217;s National Security Adviser Wi Sung-lac said in Seoul ahead of Lee&#8217;s state visit.<\/p>\n<p>Modi and Lee stood side-by-side outside the presidential palace, as lines of Indian troops marched past.<\/p>\n<p>South Korea has faced mounting risks to its energy supplies since US-Israeli attacks on Iran in late February prompted Tehran to effectively close the crucial Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries are also seeking to bolster a 2010 economic partnership agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Bilateral trade has grown from $14.2 billion at the time of its implementation to $26.89 billion in 2024-25, an increase of nearly 90 percent, according to the Indian foreign ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India gave a red-carpet welcome for South Korean President Lee Jae-myung in New Delhi on Monday, with shipbuilding and artificial intelligence high on the agenda for talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. &#8220;Amidst ongoing supply chain instability and a global economic crisis stemming from the aftermath of the Middle East conflict, the Republic of Korea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46258,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46257\/revisions\/46258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}