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Singapore–South Korea relations

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The earliest contact between Singapore and South Korea was dated to April 1950, when South Korean trade delegation paid a 5-day visit to Singapore. South Korea then established a Korea Trade Centre in Singapore in 1964. After Singapore's independence in 1965, the two countries established a fishing
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The exported value from South Korea to Singapore was between 4 billion and 6 billion US dollars from 1995 to 2003, and it started increasing since 2004. It reached a peak of 26 billion US dollars in 2012. South Korea mainly exported machines and chemical products to Singapore. The proportion of
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in 1950. The two countries established formal diplomatic relations in 1975, but South Korea established a trade office and a consulate-general, and sent a special envoy to visit Singapore before that. Both countries are the only two
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In 1971, South Korea and Singapore established consular relations by renaming the Korea Trade Centre to a consulate-general. The two countries established formal diplomatic relations in 1975. In 1979,
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refined oil in the exported value had increased since 2003, while the proportion of commercial vessels in the exported value had increased after that.
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Lee Myung-bak, the President of South Korea held a summit talk with Lee Hsien Loong, the Prime Minister of Singapore on 5 June 2010.
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to visit South Korea. The two countries started regular ministerial meetings in the same year. In 1981,
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is joint corporation of film industry between South Korea and Singapore and the film symbolises the
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On 12 November 2014, Singapore organized the first ASEAN K-pop Dance Cover Festival.
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and attending the inaugural ROK-Southeast Asia Culture Ministers’ Meeting held in
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Agreement between New Zealand and Singapore on a Closer Economic Partnership
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Straits Settlement and Johore Territorial Waters Agreement of 1927
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became the first President of Singapore to visit South Korea.
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LIM, Wen Xin; LIM, Tai Wei; PING, Xiaojuan (1 October 2015).
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Index

Map indicating locations of Singapore and South Korea
Singapore
South Korea

Republic of Singapore
Republic of Korea
Colony of Singapore
United Nations
Four Asian Tigers
Han Pyo-wook
Ambassador of South Korea to Thailand
Park Chung-hee
President of South Korea
S. Rajaratnam
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Yusof Ishak
President of Singapore
North Korean
Lee Kuan Yew
Prime Minister of Singapore
Chun Doo-hwan
S. R. Nathan
Lim Hng Kiang
Ban Ki-moon
Lee Kuan Yew died
Park Geun-hye
The Observatory of Economic Complexity

Singapore Botanic Gardens
Lawrence Wong

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