Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of U.S. President Donald Trump, will visit South Korea next week at the invitation of Shinsegae Group Chairman Chung Yong-jin, a group official said Wednesday.
The junior Trump plans to meet with key business officials during his visit to the country, the official said, without disclosing the exact date or other details of his trip.
This will be Trump Jr.'s first visit to South Korea since the inauguration of his father in January.
It will come as South Korea businesses have been grappling with a series of new tariffs the Trump administration has imposed on imports to the United States, including those from South Korea.
Chung and Trump Jr. are known to be close.
In December, Trump Jr. invited the Shinsegae chairman to his father's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, which led to a meeting between Chung and then President-elect Trump.
South Korean business circles reportedly asked Chung to facilitate Trump Jr.'s visit to South Korea as a way to establish contact with the Trump administration.
source:
Yonhap News
