Chairman Woo Won-sik Officially Visits China for Top-Level Talks... Attends Winter Asian Games Opening Ceremony

Meetings with Zhao Leji, Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee, and Others
Attention on Possible Meeting with President Xi Jinping
Schedule Includes Visits to Anti-Japanese Historical Sites

Speaker of the National Assembly Woo Won-shik will make an official visit to China for five days and four nights. Speaker Woo will also attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 Harbin Winter Asian Games.

On the 5th, the Speaker's office announced that Woo will visit China until the 9th. Speaker Woo plans to hold a series of meetings with top Chinese officials, including Zhao Leji, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC). Through this visit to China, Speaker Woo aims to strengthen national interest diplomacy by promoting economic cooperation and expanding the entry of Korean companies into China, as well as to restore South Korea's international credibility, which has been destabilized due to the martial law situation.

Attention is also focused on whether Speaker Woo will be able to meet President Xi Jinping during this visit.

Speaker Woo Won-shik is speaking with the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties at the National Assembly on the 31st. Photo by Kim Hyun-min

During this visit, Speaker Woo plans to discuss support for the successful hosting of the ‘2025 APEC Gyeongju’ scheduled for October this year, China’s constructive role in the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, preservation and management of independence movement historical sites in China, and the expansion of human and cultural exchanges.

Speaker Woo will attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 Harbin Winter Asian Games. Through official luncheons and the opening ceremony, he plans to meet with high-ranking officials from various Asian countries including Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Thailand, Brunei, Kazakhstan, and Vietnam, as well as Thomas Bach, President of the IOC, to discuss economic cooperation and parliamentary exchange measures.

Additionally, Speaker Woo plans to visit anti-Japanese historical sites such as the Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall and Zhaolin Park in China to explore cooperation measures for the preservation of anti-Japanese heritage sites and the excavation of remains on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Korea’s liberation. He will request active cooperation from the Chinese government for the renovation of related facilities and the excavation and repatriation of the remains of independence activists including Ahn Jung-geun.

Accompanying this delegation are Democratic Party members Kim Tae-nyeon, Park Jung, and Kim Yong-man; People Power Party members Lee Heon-seung and Bae Hyun-jin; and Innovation Party member Shin Jang-sik.

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