On August 19, 2019, Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung-wha met with President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) Paik Jin-hyun, who is on a visit to the Republic of Korea for the 2019 International Conference on the Law of the Sea to take place in Seoul on August 20-21. During the meeting, the two sides discussed the upcoming 2019 International Conference on the Law of the Sea, the progress in the ROK-ITLOS cooperation, and the international law of the sea in general.