Overview
- Summit talks, a memorandum signing ceremony and a state banquet are scheduled for Feb. 23, according to Cheong Wa Dae.
- The agenda focuses on practical cooperation in trade and investment, climate and energy, space, the defense industry, and science and technology, alongside education, culture and exchanges.
- Brazil serves as South Korea’s largest trading and investment partner in South America and supplies key minerals including lithium, graphite, nickel, rare earths and niobium.
- Defense collaboration has been building momentum, including a memorandum signed in October 2025 to strengthen defense-industry cooperation.
- The trip will be Lula’s first state visit to Korea in 21 years, following meetings with President Lee at the G7 in June and the G20 in November where the invitation was extended.