Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will make a five-day visit to South Korea next week that will include a meeting with President-elect Park Geun-hye, Seoul's foreign ministry said Thursday.

   Suu Kyi will arrive in Seoul on Monday and attend the opening ceremony of the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games to be hosted by the South Korean alpine town of PyeongChang, the ministry said in a statement.

   In South Korea, Suu Kyi will also receive the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights that commemorates a bloody pro-democracy uprising in the southern South Korean city of Gwangju in 1980 that marked a milestone in South Koreans' struggle for democratization.

   She was designated as a 2004 winner of the award but could not travel outside her country to receive it. She had to spend two decades under house arrest under military dictatorship.

    Suu Kyi was freed in 2010 and elected to the Myanmar parliament last year, a historic moment in her country, which has been emerging from international isolation with sweeping democratic reforms. (Yonhap News)