One wonders if South Korea’s relations with Israel are all fine from the viewpoint of its security. Observers say since Israel opened its embassy in South Korea in 1964, relations between the two democracies –one in the Middle East and the other in East Asia–have continued to improve. There was a break when Israel closed its embassy in 1978 as part of the budgetary cuts in its Foreign Ministry. But from 1992 onwards, Israeli-South Korean ties resumed at the ambassadorial level. Seoul opened its embassy in Tel Aviv in 1994. In 2014, Reuven Rivlin was the first Israeli president to visit South Korea.

Trade between Jerusalem and Seoul has grown 4.37 per cent annually since 1995. In 2020, Israel exported over $1billion worth of goods and services to South Korea. The cars comprised roughly 40 per cent of South Korean exports to Israel. In 2021,........

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