Hyuk Lee, Head of Korea-Japan Future Forum, Appointed as First Ambassador to Japan under Lee Administration... Veteran Career Diplomat
Hyuk Lee, head of the Korea-Japan Future Forum (age 67, 13th Foreign Service Exam), will officially assume his post as the first Ambassador to Japan under the Lee Jaemyung administration on September 26.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the appointment of new heads of diplomatic missions on this day.
Ambassador Lee to Japan is a career diplomat who graduated from Korea University with a degree in economics and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980. He entered the ministry in the same year as Wi Sunglak, current Director of the National Security Office at the Presidential Secretariat, and Cho Hyun, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
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He has served as Director-General for Asian and Pacific Affairs and Minister at the Embassy in Japan. During the Lee Myungbak administration in 2010, he was Secretary for Foreign Affairs at the Presidential Secretariat. He later held positions including Director-General for Planning and Coordination at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to the Philippines, Ambassador for International Relations at Incheon Metropolitan City, Ambassador to Vietnam, and Secretary-General of the ASEAN-Korea Centre.
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