Miae JUNG served as the Korean Consul General to Niigata in Japan from December 2017 to November 2020 and has been a visiting research fellow at the Center for East Asian Cooperation of the Sejong Institute since March this year after retiring from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She graduated from Ewha Womans University, earned a master's degree in political science from the graduate school, and got a master's degree and a doctorate degree in the Department of international politics and Economics at Tsukuba University in Japan. The main research theme is the policy-making process in modern Japanese politics, especially the political and policy influence of civil society in the process, and she is gradually expanding her research area to the role of civil and local exchanges between Korea and Japan relations. She was a research professor at Kookmin University, a visiting professor at Kobe University, a visiting researcher at Temple University Japan Campus, and a senior researcher at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea to Japan. Through the experiences of 13 years in Japan and diplomatic fields, she is pursuing practical studies that can contribute to the improvement and development of Korean relations.