Relationship dossier
Mozambique
South Korea
Relationship assessment
Mozambique and South Korea maintain constructive ties with development cooperation and high-level engagement.
Mozambique toward South Korea
+30Mozambique has engaged South Korea through high-level bilateral diplomacy, including President Filipe Nyusi’s 2017 visit and cooperation agreements pursued by the two governments.
South Korea toward Mozambique
+35South Korea has engaged Mozambique through bilateral development cooperation and high-level diplomacy, including agreements pursued during President Filipe Nyusi’s 2017 visit to South Korea.
Overall relationship
+30The relationship is characterized by bilateral engagement and development cooperation, including high-level diplomacy and cooperation agreements. The scope and durability of specific programs are not clear enough to characterize the relationship as a close partnership.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Mozambique and South Korea maintain cooperative government relations, including development cooperation and high-level engagement. Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi visited South Korea in 2017, and the two governments pursued bilateral cooperation agreements. The relationship appears constructive, although the scale and continuity of specific joint programs are unclear.
Key developments
Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi visited South Korea, where the two governments pursued bilateral cooperation agreements.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of bilateral cooperation agreements are unclear.
- Details of the scale and continuity of South Korean development programs in Mozambique are limited.