▲ President Yoon Suk Yeol (C) poses with new Japanese Ambassador to South Korea Koichi Mizushima (L) and Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul during a ceremony to receive the envoy's credentials at the presidential office in Seoul on May 21, 2024. (Yonhap)

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Yoon receives credentials of 15 new foreign envoys

SEOUL, May 21 (Yonhap) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday received the diplomatic credentials of 15 newly appointed ambassadors from abroad.

They include two ambassadors from Thailand and Japan, as well as 13 nonresident ambassadors from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Iceland, Suriname, Mauritius, Samoa, Trinidad and Tobago, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mauritania, and Niger.

Nonresident ambassadors are diplomats stationed in a third country while being accredited to South Korea.

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