● Education
2003 MA in Business Administration, Jeju National University Graduate School
1994 BA in Business Administration, Jeju National University
1987 Graduated Seogwipo High School

● Career
2022.06 Governor of Jeju Special Self-Governing Province
2021 Chief of Staff, 2022 Presidential Election Campaign Committee of Democratic Party Candidate
Lee Jae-myung
2020 Chief of Staff, Office of Democratic Party Leader Lee Nak-yon
2020 Member of 21st National Assembly (Jeju City B)
2019 Deputy Speaker of Democratic Party Policy Committee
2018 Chairperson of Democratic Party Jeju Chapter
2017 Spokesperson, 2017 Presidential Election Campaign Committee of Democratic Party Candidate
Moon Jae-in
2017 Floor Spokesperson of Democratic Party
2016 Deputy Floor Leader of the Democratic Party
2016 Member of 20th National Assembly(Jeju City B)
2010 Member of 9th Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council (Ildo 2-dong A)
2006 Member of 8th Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council (Ildo 2-dong A)
1997 Director-General, Association of Jeju April 3 Massacre and Uprising Solidarity
1993 Student Body President of Jeju National University

● EDUCATION
Feb. 2012 Ph.D. in International Relations, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, MA,
U.S.A.
Feb. 2003 M.A. in International Relations, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University,
Seoul, Korea
Feb. 2001 B.A. in English Language · Political Science and International Studies, Pusan National
University, Busan, Korea

● CAREER
Jun. 2025 2nd Vice Minister, MOFA
Jan. 2024 Member, UN Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
May 2023 Member, Policy Advisory Committee, Ministry of National Defense
May 2022 Member, Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Committee, Seoul Metropolitan Government
Jan. 2022 Member, Policy Advisory Committee, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Jan. 2022 Member, Policy Advisory Committee, Republic of Korea Air Force
Sep. 2021 Professor, Department of Language and Diplomacy, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies,
Seoul, Korea
Sep. 2021 Member, National Unification Advisory Council
Jan. 2020 Member, Policy Advisory Committee, MOU
Aug.2020 Member, Policy Advisory Committee, MOFA
Jan. 2020 Member, 70th Anniversary of the Korean War Project Promotion Committee
Apr. 2019 Member, Self-evaluation Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Jul. 2018 Member, Policy Advisory Committee, Office of National Security
Mar. 2018 Member, Policy Advisory Committee, The ROK-US Combined Forces Command
Nov. 2016 Member, Policy Advisory Committee, Ministry of Unification (MOU)
Nov. 2014 Member, Policy Tasks Evaluation Support Group
Apr. 2012 Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Defense Analyses / Chief, North Korean Military Research
Division

● EDUCATION
Feb.1983 Graduate from Shinsung Girls’ High School
Feb.2002 Major in Public Administration at Korea National Open University
Feb.2005 Graduate with Master’s Degree in Public Administration at Jeju National University

● CAREER
Jul 2017 ~ Jan. 2018 Director of Social Education Dept Human Resource Development Institute (of Jeju
Government)
Aug 2019 ~ Jan. 2021 Director of General Affairs Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council
Jan 2022 ~ Jan. 2023 Director General of Tourism Bureau Jeju Special Self-Governing Province
Jan 2023 ~ Jan. 2024 Secretary General Jeju Special Self-Governing Provincial Council
Mar 29. 2024. ~ Present Lt. Governor for 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 the Chairman of the East Asia Foundation in Seoul and President of the Taejae Future Consensus Institute(TFCI). He also serves as a board member of the International Peace Foundation in Jeju.

● Education
Sep. 1987 - Feb. 1991 Chung-Ang University, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sc.D.
Mar. 1985 - Feb. 1987 Chung-Ang University, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, M.S.
Mar. 1981 - Feb. 1985 Chung-Ang University, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, B.S.

● Major Career Experiences
Mar. 2022 ~ Present The 11th Jeju National University President
Jan. 2020 ~ Dec. 2020 Vice-president for Inter-institutional Relations for the Korean Institute of Power
Electronics
Mar. 2019 ~Feb. 2021 Advisory Committee member for the WISE Program Jeju Center
Mar. 2019 ~ Feb 2021 Dean of the College of Engineering, Jeju National University
Mar. 2017 ~ Nov. 2017 Chairperson for the Commonization Fund Management Committee of the Jeju
Special Self-Governing Province
April 2017 ~April 2017 Member of the Jeju National University Council
Mar. 2017 ~Feb. 2019 Director of the Research Center for Electric Energy, Jeju National University
Oct. 2013 ~ Aug . 2016 Director of the Jeju Techno Park
Feb. 2012 ~ Sep. 2013 Director of the Office of Information Systems and Services
Mar. 2011 ~ Feb. 2012 Head of the Research Institute of Advanced Technology, Jeju National University
Jan. 2011 ~ Jan. 2013 Chairperson of the Energy Committee of the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province
Feb. 2004 ~ Feb. 2005 Guest researcher at the Washington State University
July 1995 ~ Aug. 1996 Post Doc. scholar at the Ohio State University
Mar. 1991 ~ present Professor of Electrical Engineering at the School of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering

● EDUCATION
Feb. 1980 Graduated from Jeil High School
Feb. 1986 Graduated from the Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
July 1991 M.A in International Relations, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K

● CAREER
Apr. 1987 Passed the 21st Foreign Service Examination
Dec. 2004 Director, Security Policy Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA)
Jan. 2011 Deputy Director-General for International Organizations, MOFA
May 2013 Director-General for International Legal Affairs, MOFA
Oct. 2014 Consul General, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Toronto
Aug. 2018 Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs, MOFA
May 2020 Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Commonwealth of Australia
Dec. 2025 President, Jeju Peace Institute / Chairman, Executive Committee of the Jeju Forum

● Award
2012 Service Merit Medal

● 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
1987.03.~ 2020. 08. Professor at Jeju National University. Dept. Science of public administration
2013. 09.~2015. 09. Director at Presidential Committee on Local Self-Developement Local Police Task
Force
2013. 02.~2014. 02. Chairman of Korean Association for Local Government Studies
2005. 09.~2006. 11. Non-executive Director at Jeju International City Developement Center (JDC)
2005. 08.~2006. 08. Member of Promotion Committee at Prime Minister’s Office for Jeju Self-Governing
Province

Jihang Park graduated from the Department of Western History at Seoul National University and received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. As a historian specializing in British history, she lectured at Pratt Institute in New York and Inha University, and served as professor at SNU from 1992 to 2018. She held research positions at the University of Tokyo, Japan, and the University of Cambridge, Great Britain. She served as president of the British Historical Association of Korea, director of the Seoul National University Library, member of the National Institute of Korean History, and member of the Presidential Special Committee on Humanities and Culture. Her publications are prolific, including British History-The Drama of Conservatism and Reform, Imperialism, Tragic Ireland, The Road to Modernity, From Equality to Fairness, and Winston Churchill, Walking with Destiny.

● 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)

Ambassador Sung Chul SHIN received a Bachelor's degree in German Language and Literature from Seoul National University in 1985. He pursued further studies in Political Science at the University of Mainz, Germany (1995), and in Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. (1996).
He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) of the Republic of Korea in 1991. From 1998 to 2001, he was posted to the Korean Embassy in Germany.
He subsequently served at the Korean Consulate General in Qingdao in China (2001–2003), and as Counsellor at the Embassies in Hungary (2005–2008) and Thailand (2010–2013). He later returned to the Embassy in Germany, where he continued his service until 2015.
In 2016, he worked at the National Human Resources Development Institute as a Senior Foreign Service Official. From 2018 to 2020, he was Consul-General in Hamburg, and from 2021 to 2023, he served as Ambassador to Turkmenistan.
Ambassador Sung-Chul SHIN is currently the 7th Director of UNITAR CIFAL Jeju / Jeju International Training Center (JITC).