By Yoo Yeon Gyeong and Lee Jihae

President Yoon Suk Yeol (third from right) on June 28 holds a summit with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (second from left) at a hotel in Madrid, Spain. Based on the values of democracy, human rights and market economy, the two leaders agreed to closely cooperate in getting North Korea to drop its nuclear program and maintaining peace on the Korean Peninsula. They also discussed cooperation in economic and security issues like energy and climate change, green technology of both countries to achieve carbon neutrality, cutting-edge industrial materials and supply chains for rare minerals. (Office of the 20th President)

President Yoon Suk Yeol (right) on June 29 shakes hands with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte at a Madrid hotel before their bilateral summit. They discussed cooperation in economy and security including cutting-edge technology like semiconductors and future industries. (Office of the 20th President)

President Yoon Suk Yeol (far left) on June 29 held a trilateral summit with U.S. President Joe Biden (middle) and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (far right) at IFEMA Convention Center in Madrid, where the NATO summit was held. The trilateral summit was the first of its kind in four years and nine months since September 2017, which saw a similar event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. (Office of the 20th President)

First lady Kim Keon Hee (left) on June 29 examines a glass artifact at the Royal Glass Factory of La Granja in Segovia, a historical city northwest of Madrid, with the spouses of other leaders attending the NATO summit. (Yonhap News)

President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee on June 29 give a toast at a hotel in Madrid to a gathering of ethnic Koreans in Spain. An estimated 100 people attended the event including first-generation Korean immigrants to the European nation and leaders of Korean groups there. (Office of the 20th President)

President Yoon Suk Yeol and first lady Kim Keon Hee on June 29 at a Madrid hotel enter a meeting of ethnic Korean residents of Spain. (Office of the 20th President)

President Yoon Suk Yeol (center) on June 30 speaks at the Korea-Spain Business Meeting (Encuentro Empresarial Corea-Espana) attended by Spanish entrepreneurs at a hotel in Madrid. (Office of the 20th President)

President Yoon Suk Yeol (second from left) and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (second from right) on June 30 shake hands at IFEMA Convention Center before their bilateral summit. (Office of the 20th President)

President Yoon Suk Yeol (third from right) on June 30 holds a bilateral summit with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (third from left) at IFMEA Convention Center in Madrid. Both leaders adopted a bilateral framework encompassing a future vision for bilateral relations, discussed boosting practical cooperation and shared their thoughts on key international affairs, including those of the Korean Peninsula. (Office of the 20th President)

President Yoon Suk Yeol (third from left) on June 30 holds talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (fourth from right). The president said he hopes that the conclusion of a new partnership in the second half of the year leads to expanded cooperation, and that communication develops in a more institutional manner through the opening of a Korean diplomatic mission to NATO. (Office of the 20th President)

First lady Kim Keon Hee on June 30 visits a Korean food store at the famous market Mercado de Maravillas in Madrid. There, she met and thanked an ethnic Korean couple there who had lived in the city for 33 years, saying, "The efforts of first-generation immigrants are playing the role of a strong bridge between Korea and Spain." (Office of the 20th President)

President Yoon Suk Yeol on June 30 holds a meeting with his advisers on the presidential plane Code One while flying back from Madrid to Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do Province. (Office of the 20th President)

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