President Moon Jae-in on Nov. 2 shakes hands with Hungarian officials at Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport in the Hungarian capital.
By Xu Aiying and Lee Jihae
Photos = Cheong Wa Dae's official Facebook
President Moon Jae-in on Nov. 2 arrived in Budapest, Hungary, to begin his three-day state visit there during his European trip.
Hungary is the last leg of the president's three-nation European tour of Italy, the U.K. and Hungary in that order. He is the first Korean leader to visit the Eastern European country in 20 years since President Kim Dae-jung in 2001.
President Moon on Nov. 3 will hold summits with Hungarian President Janos Ader and Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Afterwards, he will attend a business forum of the Visegrad Group, a regional cultural and political body composed of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia.
President Moon on Nov. 4 will attend the second Korea-Visegrad Group summit and hold bilateral summits with the leader of each of the group's four member states.
President Moon Jae-in and first lady Kim Jung-sook on Nov. 2 pay tribute at a memorial site near Margaret Bridge in Budapest, Hungary, to commemorate the victims of a fatal boat sinking there in 2019.
Upon arriving in Hungary on the evening of Nov. 2, President Moon visited a memorial site near Margaret Bridge in Budapest to honor the Korean victims who died in May 2019 in a ferry sinking on the Danube River.
At the site, he and first lady Kim Jung-sook laid a wreath with a ribbon inscribed with the message "We console the souls of our people." They paid a silent tribute to the victims as a military band performed.
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