President Yoon Suk Yeol will take two dogs he received from Turkmenistan to his official residence in Seoul, a presidential official said Friday.

Yoon and first lady Kim Keon Hee received two Alabay dogs from Turkmenistan’s former president and chairman of the People’s Council, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, as gifts during their meeting in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat on Tuesday.

The Alabay is a home-bred Turkmen variety of the Central Asian shepherd dog and is listed under the country’s national heritage.

Yoon and Kim, known for their love for pets, currently live with six dogs and five cats at their official residence.

“The Alabay dogs will arrive in South Korea on June 18 after going through quarantine procedures,” a presidential official told reporters in Tashkent, where Yoon was on a state visit to Uzbekistan.

The dogs will first spend time on the lawn in front of the presidential office in Yongsan before moving to the presidential residence, the official said.

Source: Yonhap News Agency