Brussels, 23/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - The first summit meeting between the Union and South Korea since entry into force of the bilateral co-operation agreement last April is to be held in Copenhagen on 24 September, at the end of the EU/Asem and EU/China summits. The Europeans, represented, among others, by Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, European Commission President Romano Prodi, as well as Commissioners Chris Patten and Pascal Lamy, want to make of this summit - which will be "very short and very intensive" - the occasion for paying tribute to Kim Dae Jung", the Korean President, for his skills on the economic front following the shock of 1997 and his "moral courage" that led him to promote the "Sunshine Policy" towards North Korea, sources in Brussels emphasised on Friday. In the context of a relationship that seems to be blossoming both politically (where the very new partners have been able to develop "strong contacts") and economically (their trade has "deepened", the Union having become the foremost investor in Korea, its third trading partner and a partner in Geneva), European and Korean leaders should nevertheless devote "very short but sufficient time" to their quarrel over aid and trading practices in the shipbuilding sector (see EUROPE of 19 September, p.12). A few days before the 30 September deadline that the Fifteen have set to take the case to Geneva, "our message will be clear: we hope that Kim will provide a favourable impetus" to a "sincere participation of the Korean side" in the "last chance" talks that will continue at the same time in Brussels at technical level. The EU and Seoul will also discuss a problem of the same order that has been dealt with recently in the framework of a European anti-subsidy procedure, which is the placing at disposal of funding through public banks to help Korean computer chip manufacturers "remain alive".