South Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister Chung Byung-won has attended the inauguration ceremony of Iran's new President Masoud Pezeshkian, Seoul's foreign ministry said Wednesday. Chung represented the South Korean government at the ceremony, which took place in Tehran on Tuesday (local time), according to the ministry. In a separate meeting, Chung congratulated Pezeshkian on his inauguration and expressed hope for continued development in the 60-year-long friendly relations between South Korea and Iran. In response, Pezeshkian acknowledged the importance of the bilateral ties and expressed his desire for closer cooperation between the new Iranian government and South Korea. Pezeshkian, 69, was sworn in as Iran's ninth president. Unlike his predecessor, who was known for his hard-line conservative stance, Pezeshkian is classified as a moderate reformist. Source: Yonhap News Agency