Park Jin | |
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박진 | |
40th Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office 12 May 2022 – 10 January 2024 | |
President | Yoon Suk Yeol |
Prime Minister | Han Duck-soo |
Preceded by | Chung Eui-yong |
Succeeded by | Cho Tae-yul |
Member of the National Assembly | |
Assumed office 30 May 2020 | |
Preceded by | Jeon Hyun-hee |
Constituency | Gangnam B |
In office 9 August 2002 – 29 May 2012 | |
Preceded by |
Roh Moo-hyun |
Succeeded by | Chung Sye-kyun |
Constituency | Jongno |
Personal details | |
Born | Seoul, South Korea | 16 September 1956
Political party | People Power Party |
Alma mater |
Seoul National University (
LLB) Harvard University ( MPA) University of Oxford ( DPhil) New York University ( LLM) |
Military service | |
Allegiance | Republic of Korea |
Branch/service | Republic of Korea Navy |
Years of service | 1980–1983 |
Rank | Lieutenant JG (Korean: Jungwi) |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 박진 |
Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Bak Jin |
McCune–Reischauer | Pak Chin |
Park Jin CBE [1] ( Korean: 박진; born 16 September 1956) is a South Korean diplomat and politician. He is currently a 4-term member of the National Assembly and served as the 40th Foreign Minister.
Park passed the 11th Foreign Affairs Examination in 1977 and served as a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (South Korea) Officer in 1978. From 1980 to 1983, he served as a naval officer through a course of naval cadets. He was selected for the seventh term of state-funded international studies in 1983 and earned a master's degree in public administration at Harvard Kennedy School in 1985 and a Ph.D. in political science at Oxford University in 1993.
Since 1993, he has served as an overseas press secretary and political secretary at the presidential secretariat of the Kim Young-sam administration. Since 2002, he has served as the 16th and 17th lawmakers of Jongno-gu, Seoul, and served as the chairman of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee, taking the lead in ratifying the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement and passing the North Korean Human Rights Act.
In 2008, he visited the United States as the head of the Korea-U.S. Congressional Diplomatic Association and met Joe Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In 2020, he moved to Gangnam-gu B, Seoul, and was elected to the 21st National Assembly (South Korea).
In May 2022, he was appointed Foreign Minister of the Yoon Suk-yeol government.