Speaker
KIM Young-Sun
Affliation
Asia Research Center, Seoul National University
Title
Senior Fellow / Former Secretary-General, Korea-ASEAN Center / Former Korean Amb
Session

Biography

김영선은 서울대 정치학과를 졸업하고, 일본 게이오 대학에서 석사학위(정치학)를 받았다. 직업외교관으로서 외교부 대변인, 주인도네시아 대사 및 한-아세안센터 사무총장을 역임했다. 현재 서울대 아시아연구소에서 한-아세안관계 및 동남아시아 정치를 연구 중이다. 현재 일간지에 ‘김영선의 ASEAN 톺아보기’란 제목으로 칼럼을 연재하고 있다.

Kim Young-sun graduated from Seoul National University with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and received a Master’s degree at Keio University, Japan. He served as the Spokesperson and Deputy Minister for Public Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the Republic of Indonesia, and as the Secretary General of the ASEAN-Korea Centre. He is currently a visiting research fellow at the Seoul National University Asia Center, and his research fields are ASEAN-Korea relations and the politics of Southeast Asia. He also publishes columns regularly in a Korean daily newspaper, entitled ‘Kim Young-sun’s Closer Look into ASEAN (김영선의 ASEAN 톺아보기).’