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Board of Directors

President

Members of Board of Directors
Position Name Education and Work Experience
President Lee SihyungLee Sihyung
  • - B.A. Department of International Relations, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  • - Studied Russian at Defense Language Institute (DLI, Pentagon-run school), Monterey, California, U.S.A.
  • - Counsellor, Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C., United States of America
  • - Director for Personnel, MOFAT
  • - Director-General, Economic Cooperation Bureau, Ministry of Finance and Economy
  • - Ambassador for East-Asia Economic Cooperation, MOFAT
  • - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Poland
  • - Deputy Minister for Trade, MOFAT
  • - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Korean Permanent Delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • - Ambassador for International Relations to the Governor of Gyeonggi Province, Korea

Executive Vice-President

Members of Board of Directors
Position Name Education and Work Experience
Executive
Vice-President		 remain vacant
Executive
Vice-President		 remain vacant

Non-Executive Directors

Auditor-General
Name Education and Work Experience
Hong Seok-in
  • - Director-General for Public Diplomacy and Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Park Sung-hee
  • - Professor, Department of Journalism, Ewha Womans University
Rhee Jang-han
  • - Chairman, Chong Kun Dang
Bahk Byong-won
  • - Chairman emeritus, Korea Employer’s Federation
Yun Sai-ree
  • - Managing Partner, Attorneys at Law YULCHON