Yoon Appoints Park Cheol-hee, Director of Seoul National University Institute of International Studies, as Head of Korea National Diplomatic Academy

President Yoon Suk-yeol appointed Park Cheol-hee, director of the Institute of International Studies at Seoul National University, as the president (vice-minister level) of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, a government-affiliated research institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the 30th.

President Yoon made this appointment on the same day, according to a briefing by spokesperson Lee Do-woon. Previously, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had dismissed the former president of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy, Hong Hyun-ik. The president of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy is a political public official appointed by the president upon the recommendation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

The newly appointed president Park was born in 1963, graduated from the Department of Political Science at Seoul National University, and earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in the United States. He subsequently served as a professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University and as director of the Japan Research Institute, and also acted as the chief secretary of the Korea-Japan Forum. In 2017, he served as president of the Modern Japanese Studies Association.

Professor Park Cheol-hee of Seoul National University Graduate School of International Studies, appointed as the President of the Korea National Diplomatic Academy.
[Photo by the Office of the President]