Pelosi's visit pain in the neck for Seoul

Republic of Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol snubbed United States House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who visited the country last week. Yoon was the only leader who did not meet with Pelosi during the latter's high-stakes yet troublemaking Asia trip to Singapore, Malaysia, the ROK, Japan and China's Taiwan island.

"President Yoon's vacation schedule and Speaker Pelosi's visit to the Republic of Korea overlapped, and we did not rearrange our schedule," his office said in a statement.

Being the first sitting House speaker to visit the ROK in about 20 years, Pelosi did not get a chance to meet with the country's foreign minister either, who went to Cambodia to attend a foreign ministers' forum hosted by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.