According to Yonhap News Agency, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung stated on the 5th while attending a business forum in Beijing that South Korea and China need to deepen cooperation in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI) and culture. He also used the metaphor of “sailing together on the same sea” to illustrate the deep economic and trade ties between the two countries. Lee Jae-myung said that day that South Korea and China are like ships sailing in the same direction across the same sea; they have weathered storms together and, through the deep interdependence of their industrial and supply chains, have mutually supported each other’s growth while jointly driving global economic growth. Faced with the new landscape of shifting global economic and trade dynamics, accelerating technological change, and the increasing difficulty of restructuring industrial and supply chains, if we fail to proactively adjust our course and merely rely on past momentum, we may miss critical opportunities for development. (Global Times)