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APEC South Korea 2025
APEC South Korea 2025
Host country	South Korea
Date	November 2025
Venue(s)	Main venue Hwabaek International Convention Center, Gyeongju Other meetings
Follows	2024
Precedes	2026

The APEC South Korea 2025 will be the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum of its leaders that will be held in November 2025.^[1] It was the second time South Korea has hosted the summit, having previously hosted in 2005.

Expected participants

APEC South Korea 2025 will be the first APEC meeting for United States President Donald Trump in his second presidency.

Australia
Subject to the 2025 Australian federal election,
Prime Minister
Brunei
Hassanal Bolkiah,
Sultan
Canada
Subject to the 2025 Canadian federal election,
Prime Minister
Chile
Gabriel Boric,
President
China
Xi Jinping,
President^[a]
Hong Kong
John Lee,
Chief Executive
Indonesia
Prabowo Subianto,
President
Japan
Shigeru Ishiba,
Prime Minister
South Korea
Choi Sang-mok,
acting President (Host)
Malaysia
Anwar Ibrahim,
Prime Minister
Mexico
Claudia Sheinbaum,
President
New Zealand
Christopher Luxon,
Prime Minister
Papua New Guinea
James Marape,
Prime Minister
Peru
Dina Boluarte,
President
Philippines
Bongbong Marcos,
President
Russia
Representative (undetermined)^[b]
Singapore
Lawrence Wong,
Prime Minister
Taiwan
Representative (undetermined)
Special Representative of Leader^[c]
(representing Lai Ching-te)
Thailand
Paetongtarn Shinawatra,
Prime Minister
United States
Donald Trump,
President
Vietnam
Lương Cường,
President

Notes

^ The president of China is legally a ceremonial office, but the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (de facto leader in one-party communist state) has always held this office since 1993 except for the months of transition.
^ As a result of Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2022, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against the Russian President Vladimir Putin,^[2] and South Korea is also a member of the court, due to the arrest risk, it's expected to send a representative of Putin to participant the APEC summit.
^ Due to the complexities of the relations between it and the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (ROC or "Taiwan") was not represented under its official name "Republic of China" or as "Taiwan". Instead, it participates in APEC under the name "Chinese Taipei". The president of the Republic of China does not attend the annual APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in person. Instead, it was generally represented by a ministerial-level official responsible for economic affairs or someone designated by the president. See List of Chinese Taipei representatives to APEC.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Kim, Han-joo (27 June 2024). "Gyeongju picked as host city for 2025 APEC summit in S. Korea". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 30 November 2024.
^ "Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova". International Criminal Court. 17 March 2023. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.

Preceded by APEC Peru 2024	APEC meetings 2025	Succeeded by APEC China 2026

[cn-2] The president of China is legally a ceremonial office, but the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (de facto leader in one-party communist state) has always held this office since 1993 except for the months of transition.

[4] As a result of Russian invasion of Ukraine since 2022, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against the Russian President Vladimir Putin,^[2] and South Korea is also a member of the court, due to the arrest risk, it's expected to send a representative of Putin to participant the APEC summit.

[ChinTaipei-5] Due to the complexities of the relations between it and the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (ROC or "Taiwan") was not represented under its official name "Republic of China" or as "Taiwan". Instead, it participates in APEC under the name "Chinese Taipei". The president of the Republic of China does not attend the annual APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in person. Instead, it was generally represented by a ministerial-level official responsible for economic affairs or someone designated by the president. See List of Chinese Taipei representatives to APEC.^{[citation needed]}

[1] Kim, Han-joo (27 June 2024). "Gyeongju picked as host city for 2025 APEC summit in S. Korea". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 30 November 2024.

[3] "Situation in Ukraine: ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova". International Criminal Court. 17 March 2023. Archived from the original on 17 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.

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