Overview
- Seven memorandums of understanding were signed covering a strategic AI framework, space cooperation, next‑generation nuclear technologies, CEPA implementation and intellectual property.
- Seoul will join the UAE’s Stargate AI data‑center initiative, starting with a 200‑megawatt facility toward a planned 5‑gigawatt campus, with initial investment estimated at about US$20.5 billion.
- Defense ties will expand to joint development and manufacturing in the UAE with coordinated bids to other regions, and aides cited potential combined contracts of roughly US$15 billion.
- The two governments agreed to pursue nuclear power exports together using the Barakah project as a model for entry into global markets.
- Lee will convene a business roundtable in Abu Dhabi with leaders from Samsung, Hyundai, Hanwha and LG before departing for Egypt, the G20 summit in South Africa and a state visit to Turkey.