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The Consulate Agency in Guam was originally established in 1970 as a Consulate Agency under control of the Consulate General in Honolulu. Although upgraded to a Consulate General in 1977, it was eventually downgraded back to a Consulate Agency in 1999 and since then once again the Consulate General in Honolulu has been controlling the Agency. [11]
According to the Act on the Establishment of Diplomatic missions abroad of South Korea, Consulate (분관) and Consular Office (출장소) may be established in the missions, as prescribed by Presidential Decree, if necessary to assign the said offices with affairs under the jurisdiction of the missions.
South Korea has so far sent twenty-four ambassadors to the United States, excluding 2 Chargé d'affaires a.i. (Koo Chong-whay and Oh Jay-hee). [2] As Chung Il-kwon served twice as the third and fifth ambassador, a total of twenty-three different people have served in the position. [3]
This is a list of diplomatic missions in South Korea. There are currently 117 embassies and six Representative Offices in Seoul , and some countries maintain consulates (not including honorary consulates) in cities other than Seoul as well.
Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 12923609; Schnabel, James F. (1972). Policy and Direction: the First Year, Vol. 3 of United States Army in the Korean War. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. United States Department of State: Background notes on South Korea
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The Korean American community in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area is the third-largest ethnic Korean community in the United States. [1] Most Koreans in the area live in Virginia and Maryland suburbs. In 1949, the Embassy of South Korea opened in Washington, D.C. In 1960, there were about 400 to 500 ethnic Koreans in that city.
He was Director General of the South Korean foreign ministry's Task Force on North Korea, and deputy head of the South Korean delegation to the six-party talks in Beijing in 2004. [8] He was named South Korea's special representative for Korean Peninsula peace and security affairs in 2013, and then became Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2014.