SHANGHAI — President Lee Jae Myung finished his trip to China with a symbol-laden stop at the former headquarters of South Korea’s provisional government here, invoking a shared historical backdrop to Korea’s independence movement during Japan’s colonial rule.
The visit capped his four-day tour that took Lee from Beijing, the seat of political power, to Shanghai, China’s commercial hub.
A South Korean Air Force aircraft carrying Lee and his delegation arrived at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam at 9:37 p.m. Wednesday.
Before returning to Seoul, Lee and first lady Kim Hea Kyung attended a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the provisional government.
The government-in-exile is widely seen as a wellspring
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