The 2026 Korea-Africa Business Forum is held at Lotte Hotel in Jung District, central Seoul, on June 2. [YONHAP]
Hundreds of business leaders and government officials from Korea and African nations attended a business forum Tuesday to discuss ways to deepen economic cooperation and expand industrial partnerships, Seoul's foreign ministry said.
The 2026 Korea-Africa Business Forum, organized as a sideline event to the Korea-Africa Foreign Ministers' Meeting held the previous day, took place under the theme of “Korea-Africa Business Partnership: The Future of Shared Prosperity and Joint Growth.”
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About 300 representatives from businesses and governments in Korea and 50 African countries, out of the 54 invited, attended the forum, where keynote speeches were delivered by Sung Kim, president of Hyundai Motor and former U.S. ambassador to Korea, and Wamkele Keabetswe Mene, secretary general of the African Continental Free Trade Area.
