Jointly with Chatham House, U.K, the Korea Foundation invited ten next-generation policy experts from eight European countries to Korea from March 31 through April 6, 2019.

The invited guests were policy experts in their 30s and 40s, working as experts in East Asian affairs at European think tanks, universities and media, influential in foreign policy area. They included a senior fellow of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), a research fellow of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), and the director of the Institute of Asian Studies of Matej Bel University in Slovakia. Led by Dr. Champa Patel, Head of Asia-Pacific Programme of Chatham House, the delegation visited government agencies and leading policy research institutions during their stay in Korea for seven days.

Visiting Korea at a time when the ROK-U.S. summit was imminent, the European policy experts had in-depth discussion with Korean experts in foreign policy and security when they visited the Ministry of Unification and the Ministry of Defense, attended a briefing by the Director-General of the European Affairs Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and roundtable meetings at the Yonsei-EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, and met with the EU Ambassador to South Korea.