Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb will visit Seoul next week to discuss bilateral issues with South Korean officials, including trade and investment, Yonhap news agency quoted the foreign ministry as saying.
The 46-year-old prime minister's four-day tour, starting on Wednesday, has been arranged in return for South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won's visit to Finland in October 2013, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It will be the Finnish prime minister's first visit to any Asian country since taking office in June, it said.
In his planned meetings with President Park Geun-hye and Prime Minister Chung, he will discuss bilateral trade and investment as well as exchange ideas on the fields of technology and info-communications, the ministry said.
The current security situation on the Korean Peninsula as well as in the Asian region will also be discussed, it added.
"Prime Minister Alexander Stubb's visit to Seoul will be a moment to freshly cement trust and bond between the two countries and to boost mutually beneficial trade as well as their economic cooperation," the foreign ministry said in a statement.