(MENAFN- QNA) South Korean President Park Geun-hye left for Canada Saturday for a three-day state visit on a trip that will also take her to New York where she will address the UN General Assembly.
In Ottawa, Park is scheduled to meet with South Korean residents there before meeting separately with Gov. General David Johnston and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, according to South Korea's News Agency (Yonhap).
The summit with Harper on Monday will be Park's third with him. In March, Harper visited Seoul as the two countries announced the conclusion of a free trade deal after nearly nine years of tough negotiations.
Canada is the world's 11th-largest economy and one of the Group of Eight nations. But trade between Seoul and Ottawa has been relatively small, with Canada being only the 25th-largest trade partner for South Korea. Two-way trade amounted to nearly US$10 billion in 2013.
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