NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated Yoon Suk Yeol for being elected as South Korea's new President and expressed a need to strengthen ties between each the international locations.
Taking to Twitter, PM Modi wrote, "I lengthen my heartfelt greetings and good needs to ROK President @sukyeol__yoon as he commences his time period in workplace immediately. I look ahead to assembly him quickly and dealing collectively to additional strengthen and enrich the India-ROK ties."

Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea's new president and the chief of the nation's first conservative authorities in 5 years was sworn in as new president on Tuesday.
India-Republic of Korea (RoK) relations have made nice strides in recent times and have turn into actually multidimensional, spurred by a big convergence of pursuits, mutual goodwill, and high-level exchanges.
PM Narendra Modi paid a state go to to South Korea from February 21-22, 2019 on the invitation of then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in, throughout which either side held wide-ranging discussions on protection, financial, cultural, and scientific cooperation.
Each the leaders unveiled a bust of Mahatma Gandhi on the prestigious Yonsei College of Seoul. PM Modi additionally gifted a Bodhi sapling to Gimhae Metropolis and obtained the Seoul Peace Prize.
Six MOUs had been signed on start-ups, joint challenge of a postal stamp, combating trans-border and worldwide crime, commerce facilitation, roadways, and media.
PM Modi and President Moon met once more on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan on 28 June 2019, and exchanged opinions on various fields together with financial and protection trade cooperation in addition to people-to-people exchanges.