President Bush’s Brother Jeb to Visit Seoul

Jeb Bush, a former Florida governor and the younger brother of U.S. President George W. Bush, will visit South Korea this week at the invitation of Ryu Jin, chairman of the Poongsan Corp., company officials said Sunday.

Bush, 54, is scheduled to meet top executives of the Korea International Trade Association and the heads of local governments on Thursday to discuss ways to enhance relations between the two countries, said Poongsan officials. Poongsan is a leading South Korean producer of fabricated copper and copper alloys.

He is also to deliver a speech on mixed bloods at a memorial center for American writer Pearl S. Buck, winner of a Nobel Prize in Literature and passionate human rights advocate, located in Bucheon, just west of Seoul, they said.

Ryu of Poongsan has maintained friendly ties with the Bush family and Republican leaders and he has invited former U.S. President George H.W. Bush, the father of Jeb Bush and the current U.S. president, they said. The latest visit of former U.S. president Bush to Seoul was made last November.

Jeb Bush served as governor of Florida for two terms till last January.