In 1979, Lee Kuan Yew became the first Prime Minister of Singapore to visit South Korea.

[11] When Lee Kuan Yew died in 2015, Park Geun-hye, then-President of South Korea, visited Singapore to attend his funeral.

According to the data from The Observatory of Economic Complexity, the exported value from Singapore to South Korea increased between 1995 and 2014.

[13] The South Korean embassy donated a sculpture Conversation – From Nature in 2011 to the Singapore Botanic Gardens.

The sculpture is an engraving of the two nations' national flowers – South Korea's Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) and Singapore's Vanda Miss Joaquim (Papilionanthe Miss Joaquim), which sprung from a common centre.

[14] Lawrence Wong, Singapore's Acting Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, visited South Korea twice in 2013 for the launch of the exhibition entitled “The Peranakan World: Cross-cultural Art from Singapore and the Straits” at the National Museum of Korea and attending the inaugural ROK-Southeast Asia Culture Ministers’ Meeting held in Gwangju, separately.

[11] On 12 November 2014, Singapore organized the first ASEAN K-pop Dance Cover Festival.