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Presidents

Name	Term of Office	Main Work Experience
Yu Hyeok-in	Jan. 3 – Oct. 9, 1992	- Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs - Minister, Bureau of Public Information - Chairman, Korea International Culture Association
Son Chu-whan	Oct. 26, 1992 – Dec. 29, 1994	- Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs - President, Sinmun - Minister, Bureau of Public Information
Choi Chang-yoon	Dec. 31, 1994 – Mar. 30, 1996	- Minister, Bureau of Public Information - Senior Secretary to the President for Political Affairs - Minister of Government Administration
Kim Jung-won	Apr. 29, 1996 – Feb. 24, 1998	- Special Advisor to President Kim Yeong-sam, Democratic Liberal Party - Second Associate Manager, Agency for National Security Planning - Ambassador-at-large to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Lee Joung-binn	Apr. 10, 1998 – Jan. 14, 2000	- Chairman, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security - Korean Ambassador to Russia - Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Lee In-ho	Feb. 21, 2000 – Dec. 29, 2003	- Professor - Korean Ambassador to Finland - Korean Ambassador to Russia
Kwon In-hyuk	Jan. 6, 2004 – Jan. 5, 2007	- Emeritus Professor, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security - Korean Ambassador to France - Korean Ambassador to the Netherlands
Yim Sung-joon	Feb. 27, 2007 – Feb. 26, 2010	- Korean Ambassador to Canada - Presidential Secretariat - Senior Secretary to the President for National Security Affairs
Kim Byung-Kook	Jun. 14, 2010 – Mar. 1, 2012	- President, East Asia Institute - Member, Presidential Commission on Policy Planning - Professor, Department of Political Science, Korea University
Kim Woosang	Mar. 1, 2012 – May 10, 2013	- Professor, Department of Political Science, Yonsei University - Director, Institute of East & West Studies, Yonsei University - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Commonwealth of Australia
Yu Hyun-seok	May 13, 2013 – May 11, 2016	- Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Kyung Hee University - Secretary General, The Korean Association of International Studies - Member, Evaluation Committee, Prime Minister's Office
LEE Sihyung	May 13, 2016 – Sep. 15, 2019	- Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Korea to the OECD - Deputy Minister for Trade, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Ambassador to Poland