South Korean President Lee Jae-myung and Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba held their first bilateral summit Tuesday, on the sidelines of the G7 meeting.

President Lee Jae-myung is attending the Group of Seven summit in Canada as the leader of an invited country, not as an "observer" as claimed in social media posts. The South Korean government announced that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney extended the invitation on June 7,

Lee Jae-myung's absence from some of the G7 group pictures is not proof that the South Korean president was ignored at the summit , contrary to claims circulating on social media. The posts share images where Lee was not expected,