[1] South Korea established formal diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia in 1989.

Korean foreign minister Choe Ho-jung visited Yugoslavia in 1990.

That same year, Yugoslav president Borisav Jović visited South Korea and arranged an air transport agreement between two countries.

While the Yugoslav wars raged, the South Korean embassy withdrew from Serbia in 1993.

Serbia also withdrew from South Korea in 1999 and the Serbian embassy in Tokyo, Japan, held additional post of an embassy to South Korea.