SEOUL — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol is using an ongoing visit to three resource-rich Central Asian countries to try to secure access to minerals that his resource-poor country’s flagship companies need to keep producing advanced batteries and semiconductors.
Yoon on Thursday was winding up a visit to Kazakhstan after arriving from Turkmenistan on Tuesday. He met Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, and his office announced the signing of 35 memorandums of understanding (MOUs) in such areas as supply-chain cooperation and lithium exploration and commercialization.
