● EDUCATION
Feb. 1986 B.A. in Political Science and International Studies, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea
Jun. 1995 Master of Pacific International Affairs, University of California, San Diego, U.S.A.
● CAREER
Apr. 1988 Passed High Diplomatic Service Examination
Jun. 1988 Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Dec. 1997 First Secretary, Korean Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, U.S.A.
Jun. 2000 Consul, Korean Consulate General in Fukuoka, Japan
Dec. 2005 Director, United Nations Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT)
Jul. 2007 Counsellor, Korean Embassy in the People's Republic of China
May 2011 Director-General, Nuclear Security Summit Preparatory Secretariat
Apr. 2012 Deputy Director-General for Development Cooperation, MOFAT
May 2013 Director-General for Development Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Aug. 2015 Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative, Korean Permanent Mission to the United Nations
in New York, U.S.A.
Jun. 2017 Special Advisor to the Minister, MOFA
Sep. 2017 Acting Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs, MOFA
Nov. 2018 Professor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy (KNDA), MOFA
Jan. 2020 President of the Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security, KNDA, MOFA
Mar. 2022 Senior Staff, Subcommittee on Foreign and National Security, The 20th Presidential Transition
Committee
Oct. 2022 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Jul. 2023 2nd Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
● AWARD
Dec. 2005 Presidential Citation
Dec. 2012 Order of Service Merit (Red Stripes)
● EDUCATION
Feb.2009 Bachelor's Degree in Korea National Open University
Feb.2012 Master`S Degree in Graduate School of Business Administration, Jeju National University
Feb.2016 Course Completion For Ph.D. Program in Graduate School of Business Administration, Jeju National University
● CAREER
Oct. 2006 Vice Chairman of Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Tourism Association
Jul. 2010 Member of 9th Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council
Jul. 2014 Member of 10th Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council
Jul. 2018 Member of 11th Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council
Aug. 2022 Vice Governor of Political Affairs, Jeju Special Self-Governing Province
Sung-Hwan Kim was a career diplomat and served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea from October 2010 to March 2013. With a career spanning over 36 years, he held a number of senior diplomatic posts including the Senior Secretary to the President for Foreign Affairs and National Security and Vice Minister of MOFAT. He was ROK's ambassador to Austria and Permanent Representative to the International Organizations in Vienna and the ROK's Ambassador to Uzbekistan. He was appointed as a Member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda in July, 2010.
After retiring from the Foreign Service, he served as the Chair of Institute for Global Social Responsibility and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Seoul National University until March 2015. He also taught at Hanyang University as a Distinguished Professor and served as the Chairman of the Gangwon Art and Culture Foundation.
He is now working as the Chairman of the East Asia Foundation and the Chairman of the Beautiful Mind Charity Foundation.
Education
Chung-ang University, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sc.D. (Sep 1987 ? Feb 1991)
Chung-ang University, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, M.S. (Mar 1985 ? Feb 1987)
Chung-ang University, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.S. (Mar 1981 ? Feb 1985)
Major Career Experiences
-The 11th Jeju National University President (Mar 2022 ~ Present)
-Vice-president for Inter-institutional Relations for the Korean Institute of Power Electronics (Jan 2020 ~ Dec 2020)
-Advisory Committee member for the WISE Program Jeju Center (Mar 2019 ~Feb 2021)
-Dean of the College of Engineering, Jeju National University (Mar 2019 ~ Feb 2021)
-Chairperson for the Commonization Fund Management Committee of the Jeju Special Self Governing Province (Mar 2017 ~ Nov 2017)
-Member of the Jeju National University Council (April 2017 ~April 2017)
-Director of the Research Center for Electric Energy, Jeju National University (Mar 2017 ~Feb 2019)
-Director of the Jeju Techno Park (Oct 2013 ~ Aug 2016)
-Director of the Office of Information Systems and Services (Feb 2012 ~ Sep 2013)
-Head of the Research Institute of Advanced Technology, Jeju National University (Mar 2011 ~ Feb 2012)
-Chairperson of the Energy Committee of the Jeju Special Self Governing Province (Jan 2011 ~ Jan 2013)
-Guest researcher at the Washington State University (Feb 2004 ~Feb 2005)
-Post Doc. scholar at the Ohio State University (July 1995 ~Aug 1996)
-Professor of Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (Mar 1991 ~ present)
● DATE OF BIRTH
April 2, 1961
● EDUCATION
Aug.1988 B.A. in German Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
May.1993 Studied in Graduate School of Public Administration, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.
● CAREER
Apr.1989 Passed High Diplomatic Service Examination
Jun.2006 Counsellor, Korean Embassy in Japan
Feb.2009 Secondment to the Office of the President
Feb.2010 Director, Japan Division, Northeast Asian Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT)
Jan.2011 Minister-Counsellor, Korean Embassy in the Commonwealth of Australia
Apr.2013 Senior Assistant Secretary, Office of the President
Feb.2014 High-level National Security Program, Korea National Defense University, Seoul, Korea
Mar.2015 Director-General for South Asian and Pacific Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Oct.2016 Consul-General, Korean Consulate General in Honolulu, U.S.A.
May.2019 Representative, Korean Mission in Taipei, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
● FAMILY
Married with two sons
Education
1974. Graduated Namju Highschool
1981. BA Science of public administration in Jeju National University
1983. MA Science of public administration in Seoul National University
1991. PhD Science of public administration in KonKuk University
Work Experience
'87.03.~'20. 08.
Professor at Jeju National University
Dept. Science of public administration
'13. 09.~'15. 09.
Director at Presidential Committee on Local Self-Developement Local Police Task Force
'13. 02.~'14. 02.
Chairman of Korean Association for Local Government Studies
'05. 09.~'06. 11.
Non-executive Director at Jeju International City Developement Center (JDC)
'05. 08.~'06. 08.
Member of Promotion Committee at Prime Minister’s Office for Jeju Self-Governing Province
Career
- Since December 2020~: President of the Northeast Asian History Foundation
- Since September 2020: Professor Emeritus of Inha University
- February 1995~August 2020: Professor of History at Inha University
- March 1987~February 1995: Professor of Liberal Arts at KAIST
- January 2004~December 2004: Chairman of the Korean History Society
- June 2004~June 2006: Advisory Committee Member Goguryo History Foundation
- March 2007~December 2008: Advisory Committee Member, The Investigative
Commission on
- Dec. 2003 Director, Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, MOFAT
Pro-Japanese Collaborators’ Property
- January 2008~December 2011: Editorial Associate, The Korean History Society
- July 2016~Deceber 2020: Associate, Seoul Council for the Promotion of Seoul as a
Historical City
● EDUCATION
Feb. 1981 LL.B., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
May 1990 LL.M., University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Diploma for International Law, University of Cambridge
● CAREER
Apr. 1983 Passed High Diplomatic Service Examination
Jun. 1983 Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Northeast Asia Division (Japan Affairs)
Dec. 1991 Second Secretary, Korean Permanent Mission to the UN Office and International Organizations in Geneva,
Switzerland
Dec. 1994 First Secretary, Korean Embassy in the Sultanate of Oman
Mar. 1997 Director, North Korean Refuge Support Division, Humanitarian Assistance Bureau, Ministry of National
Unification
Mar. 1998 Coordinator, ASEM Vision Group
Feb. 2000 Director, Emerging Markets Division, Bilateral Trade Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
(MOFAT)
Jun. 2001 Counsellor, Korean Embassy in the Russian Federation
Jun. 2004 Counsellor, Korean Embassy in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Feb. 2007 Director, Trade Dispute Settlement Division, FTA Policy Bureau, MOFAT
Aug. 2007 Head of the Task Force for Hosting 2012 Yeosu International Exposition
Feb. 2009 Deputy Director-General, FTA Policy Bureau, MOFAT
Jul. 2009 Director-General for Multilateral Trade, MOFAT
Aug. 2011 Minister, Korean Embassy in the United States of America
Apr. 2015 Consul General, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York
Jan. 2018 Retired from Foreign Service
Sep. 2022 President, the Korea Foundation
● CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Mar. 2022 Advisory Member to Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Economic Security and Foreign Affairs
Mar. 2022 Advisory Member to Citizen’s Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR)
Jul. 2010 Chairman, SOON Scholarship Foundation
● AWARDS
Feb. 2008 Service Merit Medal
Jun. 2018 Order of Service Merit (Red Stripes)
Education
- Feb. 1985 B.A. in Political Science and International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
- Feb. 1990 M.A. in Public Administration, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
- Sep. 1994 M.A. in Politics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, U.S.A.
- Feb. 2017 Ph.D. in Public Administration, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Career
- Apr. 1987 Passed High Diplomatic Service Examination
- Jun. 1987 Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
- Dec. 1995 First Secretary, Korean Embassy in the United States of America
- Dec. 1998 First Secretary, Korean Embassy in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
- Dec. 2003 Director, North American Trade Division, Bilateral Trade Bureau (MOFAT)
- Jun. 2005 Counsellor, Korean Permanent Mission to the UN Secretariat and International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland
- Apr. 2008 Minister-Counsellor, Korean Embassy in the Republic of Yemen
- Jan. 2010 Secondment to the Presidential Committee for the G20 Seoul Summit
- Oct. 2011 Deputy Director-General for Multilateral Trade Bureau (MOFAT)
- Mar. 2013 Secondment to the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy
- Oct. 2013 Director-General for Multilateral Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
- Aug. 2015 Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
- Feb. 2017 Minister, Korean Embassy in the Kingdom of Belgium and Korean Mission to the European Union
- Nov. 2018 Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Slovak Republic
- Dec. 2021 Consul-General, Korean Consulate General in New York, U.S.A.