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Inaugural holder. Lucius H. Foote (as Envoy) Formation. May 20, 1883. Website. U.S. Embassy - Korea. The United States ambassador to South Korea (Korean: 주한미국대사; Hanja: 駐韓美國大使) is the chief diplomatic representative of the United States accredited to the Republic of Korea. The ambassador's official title is "Ambassador ...
Philip Seth Goldberg (born August 1, 1956) is an American diplomat and government official who has served as United States ambassador to South Korea since 2022. He served previously as ambassador to the Philippines, Bolivia and Colombia and chief of the U.S. mission in UN-administered Kosovo during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations.
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]
Sung Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1960 to a South Korean diplomat and moved to the United States in 1973 following his father's posting in Tokyo. [8] Kim later grew up in Los Angeles and was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (BA, 1982), Loyola Law School of the Loyola Marymount University ( JD , 1985), and the London ...
Harris is sworn in as the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, 2018. Harris was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Australia in February 2018, but was renominated to become Ambassador to South Korea by Trump at the suggestion of newly sworn-in Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on May 23, 2018. [45] [46]
2019. 1963. Geneva (United Nations and the other International Organizations in Geneva) Paik Ji-ah. 2018. 1959. International Civil Aviation Organization. Lee Yoon-je. 2018.
The Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Washington, D.C. is the diplomatic mission of South Korea to the United States. Its main chancery is located at 2450 Massachusetts Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Embassy Row neighborhood. [1] The current ambassador is Cho Hyun-dong. [2]
1960. Seoul, South Korea. Political party. Independent. Alma mater. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Cho Hyun-dong (Korean: 조현동; born 1960) is a South Korean diplomat. He served as the first deputy foreign minister of the Yoon Suk Yeol government and has served as the South Korean ambassador to the United States since 2023. [1]