President Park Geun-hye will meet with her main opposition rival next week, officials said Thursday, their first meeting since they bitterly competed against each other for the nation's highest office in the closely contested 2012 election.
The meeting between Park and Moon Jae-in, head of the No. 1 opposition New Politics Alliance for Democracy, comes as both sides have vowed to focus their strengths on reviving the slumping economy. Park's ruling Saenuri Party chairman, Kim Moo-sung, will also sit in on the meeting at the presidential office on Tuesday, according to presidential and party officials.