Hwang Jun-guk, Former Ambassador to the UK, Appointed as Yoon Seok-yeol's Sponsorship Chairman... Sponsorship Registration Starts from the 19th

[Asia Economy Reporter Oh Ju-yeon] On the 18th, the camp of Yoon Seok-yeol, a presidential candidate from the opposition, announced that former Ambassador to the United Kingdom Hwang Jun-guk was appointed as the chairman of the support committee on the 17th.

Born in 1960, former Ambassador Hwang graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Economics and entered public service in 1982 through the Foreign Service Examination.

He served as Political Minister at the Embassy in the United States, Ambassador for the Korea-US Defense Cost-Sharing Negotiations, and is a North Korea nuclear expert who held positions such as Director of the North Korea Nuclear Diplomacy Planning Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2008, and Head of the Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiation Headquarters as well as South Korea’s chief representative to the Six-Party Talks in 2014.

The camp of former Prosecutor General Yoon explained, "Former Ambassador Hwang contributed to resolving peace issues on the Korean Peninsula as a public official for over 30 years," adding, "Yoon proposed recruiting Hwang as chairman of the support committee, sharing the same national perspective and activities that Hwang demonstrated as a public official, and former Ambassador Hwang readily accepted."

Former Prosecutor General Yoon’s camp plans to proceed with necessary procedures such as registration application and website establishment for the support committee starting from the 19th, and intends to begin fundraising for the support committee from the last week of July.

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