Thursday, 31/08/2017 17:42 (GMT+7)
President of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Moon Jae-in has appointed ambassadors to the US, China and Japan, the presidential Blue House said on August 30th.
From left to right: Mr. Cho Yoon-je, Mr. Lee Su-hoon and Mr. Noh Young-min (Photo: Yonhap)
Accordingly, Mr. Noh Young-min, 60, a lawmaker, has been named ambassador for China, and foreign policy expert Lee Su-hoon, 63, who spent years as a researcher at Kyugnam University’s Institute for Far Eastern Studies, as ambassador to Japan.
Cho Yoon-je, 65, an honorary professor at Sogang University's Graduate School of International Studies, has been named as ambassador to the US.
"It will take a week or a couple of weeks before we receive agreements from the relevant countries," a presidential official said.
"The President will officially appoint the three when we receive the agreements"./.
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