Following a decision taken during the visit of the Mongolian Prime Minister to South Korea in October 2009 that was ratified by the Mongolian Parliament in April 2009 and by the National Assembly in Seoul in December 2009, an agreement was signed yesterday by the two countries to allow them to provide legal assistance to their citizens in civil and trade disputes in each other’s territory.

The agreement has 30 chapters regulating a wide-ranging number of issues. It will come into force on May 8.

Apart from tourists, the number of traders and businessmen, and of marriages between nationals of the two countries has been increasing in recent years, with a corresponding increase in the number of legal disputes.