US President Biden arrives in South Korea

U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in South Korea Friday on his first visit to the country as president. Biden is opening his trip to Asia with a focus on the U.S. tech sector, touring a Samsung computer chip plant on Friday that will serve as model for a $17 billion semiconductor factory that the Korean electronics company is building outside Austin, Texas.

Greeting Biden at the plant in South Korea will be the country's new president, Yoon Suk Yeol, and Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong.

The U.S. and South Korean leaders are also expected to discuss North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile program, as the nation is struggling with a COVID-19 outbreak.

Biden will grapple with a multitude of foreign policy issues during his six-day visit to South Korea and Japan, but he also crafted an itinerary clearly meant to tend to the concerns of his home audience as well.

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