OREANDA-NEWS. Through July 15-17 of 2009 the Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko is staying on an official visit to the Republic of Korea (Seoul).

According to the program of stay, on July 16 a meeting of the Head of Government of Ukraine with President of the Republic of Korea Lee Myung-bak and Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea Han Seung-soo will take place.

Also Yulia Tymoshenko plans to hold a working lunch with representatives of leading business circles of Korea, to meet with president of “SK telecom” company and leaders of industrial groups (“Samil finance cooperation”, “Hyundai Motors”, “POSCO”, “STX Energy”).

During the visit it is intended to sign a series of bilateral documents, in particular Memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Economics of Ukraine and Ministry of Economic Affairs of Korea in the area of use of instruments of trade protection; Memorandum of understanding between public joint stock company the National Export-Import Bank of Ukraine and Export-Import Bank of Korea; Agreements between the Government of Ukraine and Government of the Republic of Korea on realization of a project of founding of Ukrainian-Korean Centre of Information Technologies in the National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.

Moreover, Yulia Tymoshenko will participate in a ceremony of laying flowers to the Monument commemorating the dead soldiers of Korea.