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  • Profile

  • Position   Minister for Trade
    Name Kim Jong-hoon
    Date of Birth  May. 5, 1952
    Family  Married with one son
    Education
    1975 Graduated from the Department of Business Adminstration, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

     

  • Career

  • - Minister for Trade, MOFAT (Aug 2007)
  • - Chief Negotiator for Korea-US FTA (Feb 2006)
  • - Ambassador for APEC, Senior Official (Aug 2004)
  • - Consul-General, Korean Consulate General in San Francisco, U.S.A. (Feb 2002)
  • - Director-General, Bilateral Trade Bureau, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade(MOFAT) (Jun 2000)
  • - Minister, Korean Permanent Mission to the UN Secretariat and International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland (Mar. 1998)
  • - Deputy Director-General, International Economic Affairs Bureau, MOFA (Feb 1997)
  • - Director for Protocol Division, MOFA (Nov 1991)
  • - Counsellor, Korean Embassy in Canada (Dec 1987)
  • - Director, International Affairs Bureau, Seoul Olympic Organization Committee (Jul 1985)
  • - Second Secretary, Korean Embassy in Burkina Faso (May 1981)
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  • Awards

  • - Order of Service Merit (Red Stripes) (Dec 1992 )