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.