The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a division of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C.,United States,with campuses in Bologna,Italy,and Nanjing,China. It is consistently ranked one of the top graduate schools for international relations in the world. The institution is devoted to the study of international affairs,economics,diplomacy,and policy research and education.
Christopher Robert Hill is an American diplomat who is currently the George W. Ball adjunct professor at Columbia University in the City of New York. Previously,he was the Chief Advisor to the Chancellor for Global Engagement and Professor of the Practice in Diplomacy at the University of Denver. Prior to this position,he was the Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University,a position he held from September 2010 to December 2017. He is nominee for Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Serbia in 2021.
Cho Tae-yong is a South Korean career diplomat with over three decades of experience who has served as South Korea's Deputy National Security Advisor since October 2015.
Kang Young-Hoon was a South Korean politician who served as the second prime minister of the sixth South Korean republic,from 16 December 1988 until 27 December 1990.
Mark William Lippert is an American diplomat who has worked as the vice president for international affairs at Boeing since 2017. He previously served as the United States Ambassador to South Korea from 2014 to 2017. Prior to his tour as an ambassador,Lippert had served as Chief of Staff for Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel,Chief of Staff for the National Security Council,and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs in the Department of Defense. On March 5,2015,he was attacked by a man wielding a knife in South Korea.
Choi Young-jin is a South Korean career diplomat who served as South Korean Ambassador to the United States from 2012–2013,when he was succeeded by Ahn Ho-young.
Mark C. Minton is career member (retired) of the United States Foreign Service and served as the U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from 2006 to 2009. He was formally President of the Korea Society from 2010 to 2015 and then joined the faculty of the School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington.
Lee Bum Suk was the Foreign Minister of South Korea from 1982 until his death. He was among the victims of the Rangoon bombing in 1983.
Kang Kyung-wha is a South Korean diplomat and politician who served as the first Foreign Minister of South Korea under President Moon Jae-in from 2017 to 2021 as well as the first woman nominated for and appointed to the position. She is also the first Korean woman to hold a high-level position in the United Nations. Previously,Kang was the first non-exam-taker to become a director-general in the ministry. She is the first South Korean foreign minister to join the official South Korean delegation for the inter-Korean summit as well as to visit Pyongyang,the North Korean capital.
The relationship between the Republic of Korea and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland spans from the 19th century to the present day. Although the Republic of Korea gives 18 January 1949 as the date of the establishment of formal relations with the United Kingdom,diplomatic ties go back to 1883. British military participation in the Korean War during the 1950s was significant,but relations between the two countries at the time were described as "tenuous",with relatively little known about each other. Commercial and trade relationships grew rapidly during the 1970s. During the Asian Financial Crisis in the late 1990s,Queen Elizabeth II made a state visit to South Korea,which was well received at a time of crisis in the country. Today,there are strong economic and diplomatic links between the two countries.
Antonio de Aguiar Patriota is the current Ambassador of Brazil to Egypt and former Minister of Foreign Affairs. Patriota took office as foreign minister on January 1,2011,and remained in office until August 26,2013.
Sung Yong Kim is an American diplomat of Korean descent serving as the United States Special Representative for North Korea Policy since 2021,and previously from 2014 to 2016. He has also served as the acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from January to June 2021.
The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Washington,D.C. is the diplomatic mission of South Korea to the United States. Its main chancery is located at 2450 Massachusetts Avenue,Northwest,Washington,D.C.,in the Embassy Row neighborhood. The current ambassador is Lee Soo-hyuck.
The MOFAT Diamond Scandal was exposed around early January 2012,in which the ambassador of South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,Kim Eun-seok,leaked information on his illegal purchase of stocks of a mining firm called CNK International by falsifying information of a diamond reserve in Cameroon. This incident generated criticisms against the Lee Myung-bak government. The scope of the investigation later spread to other senior South Korean public officials.
Yang Sung-chul is a South Korean political scientist,politician,and diplomat.
Ahn Ho-young is a South Korean diplomat who was the South Korean ambassador to the United States from 2013 to 2017.
Hyun Hong-choo was a South Korean lawyer,politician and diplomat.
Chung Eui-yong is a South Korean diplomat and a politician currently serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs under President Moon Jae-in from February 2021 after serving as his first Director of National Security from 2017 to 2020.
