▶ Yoon Suk-yeol’s visit to Kyiv confirmed South Korea’s commitment to the coalition of democratic states supporting Ukraine in its defence war against Russia. ▶ In addition to its political dimension, Yoon’s visit prepared the groundwork for South Korea’s economic engagement in post-war Ukraine. ▶ Although the Republic of Korea is trying to reinforce its status as a “global pivotal state”, it ...

▶ A surprise visit of President Yoon with his spouse Kim to Kyiv on July,15 has fixed to a large extent the positive dynamics in bilateral relations since spring 2022. If we analyze thoroughly interests and challenges of both countries in the current time-period we can discover that they have quite a lot of commonalities. ▶ Based on current situation in-around Ukraine and latest activation of bilateral ties wi...