Agre’mang application… Official replacement of the Ambassador to Japan expected in a month,
Park Cheol-hee Director of the National Institute of Diplomacy./News1,
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, ‘(Seoul=News1) Reporter No Min-ho = It has been confirmed that Park Cheol-hee, Director of the National Institute of Diplomacy, has been nominated as the next Ambassador to Japan.’,
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, ‘According to multiple government sources on the 23rd, the government has completed the personnel verification for Director Park and has submitted an agre’mang (host country agreement) to the Japanese government.’,
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, ‘In the case of an Ambassador, it usually takes about a month until the agre’mang process is finalized, so it is expected that Director Park will officially take office next month.’,
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, ‘Director Park has worked as a visiting researcher at the Japan Institute for International Peace, a special overseas researcher at the Japan Friendship Association Japan Research Institute, an assistant at the East Asia Research Institute at Columbia University in the U.S., a professor at the National Institute for Defense Studies starting in 2002, an assistant professor at Seoul National University’s Graduate School of International Studies, and director of Seoul National University’s Japan Research Institute.’,
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, ‘He served as the dean of Seoul National University’s Graduate School of International Studies for two years starting in 2016, and in 2017, he was appointed as the 24th president of the Japan Studies Society. He is known to have a strong network in Japan.’,
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, ‘Director Park joined the election campaign of President Yoon Suk-yeol in August 2021 and played a role in refining President Yoon’s basic direction of diplomatic, security, and unification policies as a member of the Policy Advisory Board’s Diplomacy, Security, and Unification Subcommittee. After working as the director of Seoul National University’s Institute of International Studies, he was appointed as director of the National Institute of Diplomacy in March last year.’,
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, “It is expected that Director Park will start preparations for the announcement of ‘Kim Dae-jung-Obechi Declaration 2.0’ as soon as he takes office, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the normalization of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Japan next year.\n”