August 25, 2026 11:05 pm (IST)
Modi speaks to Park Geun-Hye
New Delhi, July 22 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke over telephone to South Korea President Park Geun-Hye on Tuesday.
The call was initiated by the Korean side.
Park congratulated Modi on his victory in the general elections.
She recalled with appreciation Prime Minister’s association with Korea as Chief Minister of Gujarat and expressed confidence that the Strategic Partnership between our two countries will expand in all areas under his leadership.
President Park thanked India for its gift of a sapling of the sacred Bodhi tree and for the visa-on-arrival facility extended by India to Korean nationals following her visit to India in January 2014.
She expressed support and appreciation for India’s role and standing in world affairs and in the international community.
Modi thanked Park for her warm felicitations.
He hoped to work together with President Park and her government for common interest and benefit of the two countries and the mankind.
The PM welcomed greater economic engagement between the two countries and hoped to achieve more substantive and all-round progress in our partnership in the years to come.
Park invited Modi to pay an early visit to Korea, to which the latter accepted the invitation with pleasure.
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