India -- South Korea relations - Wikipedia India -- South Korea relations India -- South Korea relations India South Korea Diplomatic Mission Embassy of India, Seoul, South Korea Embassy of South Korea, New Delhi, India Envoy Ambassador of India to South Korea Sripriya Ranganathan Ambassador of South Korea to India Shin Bong - kil India -- South Korea relations have been relatively strong for 2,000 years, although more progress arose during the past three decades. Korea and India share a lot of similarities in every aspect. Since the formal establishment of the diplomatic ties between the two countries in 1973, several trade agreements have been reached : Agreement on Trade Promotion and Economic and Technological Co-operation at 1974 ; Agreement on Co-operation in Science & Technology in 1976 ; Convention on Double Taxation Avoidance in 1985 ; and Bilateral Investment Promotion / Protection Agreement in 1996. Trade between the two nations has increased exponentially, exemplified by the $530 million during the fiscal year of 1992 - 1993, and the US $10 billion during 2006 - 2007. It further increased to US $17.6 billion in the year 2013. During the 1997 Asian financial crisis, South Korean businesses sought to increase access to the global markets, and began trade investments with India. The last two presidential visits from South Korea to India were in 1996 and 2006, and the embassy works between the two countries are seen as needing improvements. Recently, there have been acknowledgments in the Korean public and political spheres that expanding relations with India should be a major economical and political priority for South Korea. Much of the economic investments of South Korea have been drained into China ; however, South Korea is currently the fifth largest source of investment in India. To the Times of India, Roh Tae - woo voiced his opinion that co-operation between India 's software and Korea 's IT industries would bring very efficient and successful outcomes. The two countries agreed to shift their focus to the revision of the visa policies between the two countries, expansion of trade, and establishment of free trade agreement to encourage further investment between the two countries. Korean companies such as LG and Samsung have established manufacturing and service facilities in India, and several Korean construction companies won grants for a portion of the many infrastructural building plans in India, such as the National Highways Development Project. Tata Motors ' purchase of Daewoo Commercial Vehicles at the cost of US $102 million highlights India 's investments in Korea, which consist mostly of subcontracting. In June 2012, India, a major importer of arms and military hardware planned eight warships from South Korea but cancelled it. India - RoK relations have made great strides in recent years and have become truly multidimensional, spurred by a significant convergence of interests, mutual goodwill and high level exchanges. Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh paid an official visit to Seoul from 24 -- 27 March 2012, pertaining to Nuclear Security Summits, which led to the deepening of bilateral strategic partnership that was forged during President Lee Myung - bak 's State visit to India. An agreement on visa simplification was signed on 25 March 2012 in the presence of the two leaders at the Blue House. A Joint Statement was also issued during PM 's visit. PM had last visited Seoul from November 10 -- 12, 2010 for the G20 Summit. Earlier President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil came on a State Visit to RoK from 24 -- 27 July 2011 during which the Civil Nuclear Energy Cooperation Agreement was signed. President Lee paid a landmark visit to India, as Chief Guest at India 's Republic Day celebrations on 26 January 2010, when bilateral ties were raised to the level of Strategic Partnership. His visit preceded an equally successful State Visit to RoK by President Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, in February 2006 that heralded a new vibrant phase in India - RoK relations. It interalia led to the launch of a Joint Task Force to conclude a bilateral Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement ( CEPA ), which was signed by Minister for Commerce and Industry Shri Anand Sharma at Seoul on August 7, 2009. Contents 1 Pre-modern relations 2 Modern relations 3 See also 4 Further reading 5 References 6 External links Pre-modern relations The fact that people on the Indian subcontinent were familiar with Korea 's customs and beliefs is amply testified by the records of the Chinese Buddhist pilgrim, I - Ching who reached India in 673. I - Ching writes that Indians regarded Koreans as `` worshipers of the rooster ''. This concept about Koreans was grounded in a legend of the Silla dynasty. The legend has it that in the year A.D. 65 the Silla King Talhae was told about a golden box lying in the neighboring forest. He personally went into investigate and discovered a golden box, resplendent with divine light, was hanging from a branch of a tree. Under the tree a rooster was crowing and when the box was opened, a beautiful boy was found inside. The boy was named `` Al - chi '' meaning `` infant '' and was given the surname `` Kim '' meaning gold to indicate his emergence from the golden trunk. The king formally named the boy his own son and crown prince. When Kim Al - chi ascended to the throne, Silla was called `` Kyerim '' meaning `` rooster - forest '', obviously because a rooster had crowded beneath the tree where he lay in the box. In 2001, a Memorial of Heo Hwang - ok, who is believed to be a princess of Indian origin by some, was inaugurated by a Korean delegation in the City of Ayodhya, India, which included over a hundred historians and government representatives. In 2016, a Korean delegation proposed to develop the memorial. The proposal was accepted by the Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav. A famous Korean visitor to India was Hyecho, a Korean Buddhist monk from Silla, one of the three Korean kingdoms of the period. On the advice of his Indian teachers in China, he set out for India in 723 CE to acquaint himself with the language and culture of the land of the Buddha. He wrote a travelogue of his journey in Chinese, Wang ocheonchukguk jeon or `` An account of travel to the five Indian kingdoms ''. The work was long thought to be lost. However, a manuscript turned up among the Dunhuang manuscripts during the early 20th century. A rich merchant from the Ma'bar Sultanate, Abu Ali ( P'aehali ) 孛 哈里 ( or 布 哈 爾 Buhaer ), was associated closely with the Ma'bar royal family. After falling out with them, he moved to Yuan dynasty China and received a Korean woman as his wife and a job from the Mongol Emperor, the woman was formerly 桑 哥 Sangha 's wife and her father was 蔡仁揆 채인규 Ch'ae In'gyu during the reign of 忠烈 Chungnyeol of Goryeo, recorded in the Dongguk Tonggam, Goryeosa and 留 夢 炎 Liu Mengyan 's 中 俺 集 Zhong'anji. 桑 哥 Sangha was a Tibetan. Modern relations India - Republic Of Korea Joint Commission for bilateral co-operation was established in February 1996, which is chaired by the External Affairs Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade from the Korean side. So very far, six meetings of the Joint Commission have been held, with the last one held in Seoul in June 2010. An Indian Cultural Centre was established in ROK in April 2011 and the Festival of India in Korea was inaugurated by Dr. Karan Singh, President of Indian Council for Cultural Relations on 30 June 2011. It will be celebrated for 8 months in order to revitalise the cultural relations between the two countries. Indian Community in ROK is estimated to be about 8000. Their composition includes businessmen, IT professionals, scientists, research fellows, students and workers. There are about 150 businessmen dealing mainly in textiles. Over 1000 IT professionals / engineers have recently come to ROK and are working in various companies including large conglomerates such as Samsung and LG. There are about 500 scientists / post-doctoral research scholars in ROK working in prestigious institutions. Former South Korean President Park Geun - hye visited India in 2014. In July 2018, South Korean President Moon Jae - in and Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi jointly inaugurated the world 's largest smartphone factory `` Samsung '' in Noida, India. See also India -- North Korea relations History of Korea Hinduism in Korea Koreans in India Indians in Korea Further reading Cultural relations of India and Korea / Raghuvira. In : Vivekananda,., & Lokesh, Chandra ( 1970 ). India 's contribution to world thought and culture. Madras : Vivekananda Rock Memorial Committee. Jain, Sandhya, & Jain, Meenakshi ( 2011 ). The India they saw : Foreign accounts. New Delhi : Ocean Books. Vol. I contains material about Korean ( and Chinese ) Buddhist pilgrims to India. References ^ Jump up to : IDSA publication Archived December 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine. ^ Jump up to : Blue House commentary Archived 2007 - 09 - 30 at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` Roh, Vajpayee discuss further cooperation ''. Retrieved 29 April 2016. Jump up ^ `` ( 시론 ) 중국 인도 FTA 와 한국 의 선택 - 조선 닷컴 ''. Retrieved 29 April 2016. ^ Jump up to : FICCI info Archived 2008 - 02 - 21 at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ `` India to buy 8 warships from South Korea for Rs 6,000 crore ''. The Times of India. Retrieved 29 April 2016. Jump up ^ Korea Journal Vol. 28. No. 12 ( Dec. 1988 ) Jump up ^ Korean memorial to Indian princess, 6 March 2001, BBC Jump up ^ UP CM announces grand memorial of Queen Huh Wang - Ock, 1 March 2016, WebIndia123 Jump up ^ Angela Schottenhammer ( 2008 ). The East Asian Mediterranean : Maritime Crossroads of Culture, Commerce and Human Migration. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 138 --. ISBN 978 - 3 - 447 - 05809 - 4. Jump up ^ SEN, TANSEN. 2006. `` The Yuan Khanate and India : Cross-cultural Diplomacy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries ''. Asia Major 19 ( 1 / 2 ). Academia Sinica : 317. JSTOR. Jump up ^ ( http://www.sino-platonic.org/complete/spp110_wuzong_emperor.pdf Shaykh ' Âlam : the Emperor of Early Sixteenth - Century China ) p. 15. Jump up ^ `` Sorry for the inconvenience ''. April 2016. Jump up ^ `` Samsung opens world 's biggest smartphone factory in India ''. Retrieved 2018 - 07 - 19. Jump up ^ Sputnik. `` India Becomes Home to World 's Largest Smartphone Factory ''. sputniknews.com. Retrieved 2018 - 07 - 19. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Relations of India and South Korea. Coping with Giants : South Korea 's Responses to China 's and India 's Rise by Chung Min Lee, Strategic Asia 2011 - 12 : Asia Responds to Its Rising Powers - China and India ( September 2011 ) List of Agreements signed between India and South Korea in May 2015 Rajiv Kumar. `` Explaining the origins and evolution of India 's Korean policy '', International Area Studies Review, June 2015 ; vol. 18 ( 2 ), pp. 182 -- 198. 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Question: who is the indian ambassador to south korea
Answer: Sripriya Ranganathan