​Overview

• • Establishment of Diplomatic Relations : Sep 30, 1962
  • GDP(2023) : $83.4 billion
  • GDP(per capita) : $18,725
  • Economic Growth Rate : 7.3%
  • Inflation Rate : 1.5%
  • Exports(2023) : $3.4 billion
  • Imports(2023) : $14.5 billion
  • Bilateral Trade(2023)
    • Exports : $1,090 million
    • Imports : $330 million
    • Number of Koreans living in Panama(2023) : about 630
  • High-level Exchanges
    • From the ROK to Panama
      • 2003   November, Special Envoy, Han Myung Sook
      • 2005   September, President, Roh Moo Hyun
      • 2010   May, Speaker of the National Assembly, Kim Hyung O.
      • 2010   June, President, Lee Myung Bak
      • 2015   August, Foreign Minister, Yoon Byung Se
      • 2015   September, Speaker of the National Assembly, Chung Eui Hwa
      • 2016   June, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Kang Ho In
      • 2018   March, Prime Minister, Lee Nak-yon
      • 2018   December, Foreign Minister, Kang Kyung-wha
      • 2019   July, Special Envoy, Shim Jae Kwon
    • From Panama to the ROK
      • 2001   July, Foreign Minister, Aleman
      • 2005   November, First Vice President and Foreign Minister, Samuel Lewis Navarro
      • 2006   September, President of the Supreme Court of Justice, Graciela Dixon
      • 2010   October, President, Martinelli, Vice President and Foreign Minister, Varela
      • 2013   May, Minister of Canal Affairs, Roberto Roy
      • 2015   July, Minister of Labor and Workforce Development, Luis Ernesto Charles
      • 2016   November, General Administrator of the National Authority for Goverment Innovation, Irvin Halman
      • 2017   August, Vice-President, Saint Malo
      • 2019   May, Panama Canal Administrator, Jorge Quijano
      • 2019   November, Panama Canal Administrator, Ricaurte Vasquez
      • 2022   July, Executive Director of PROPANAMA, Carmen Vergara

• Related documents

  • First Vice Foreign Minister Meets with the Vice Foreign Minister of Panama
  • ROK-Panama Foreign Ministers’ Meeting Takes Place
  • ROK Presents to Panama a “Friendship Tower”
  • A Private-Public Joint Delegation for Cooperation in E-Government Visits the Dominican Republic, Panama and Peru on August 3-12
  • ROK to Celebrate its 50th Anniversary of Diplomatic Relations with Ecuador and Panama

• Related links

  • Embassy in Panama