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Ambassador Young-mok Kim, Consul General of the Republic of Korea in New York, will discuss the economic challenges and opportunities of emerging Asian markets during a lecture at William Paterson University in Wayne on Thursday, November 10, at 11 a.m. in the 1600 Valley Road Auditorium. Ambassador Kim is expected to speak to more than 100 students, faculty, and staff of the University’s Cotsakos College of Business.
Kim was appointed Consul General of the Republic of Korea in New York in August 2010. He has served with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea since 1976. He has held many positions related to Korea-U.S. bilateral relations and the security of the Korean peninsula. He served as political secretary at the Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C., and as director and, later, deputy director general of the North American Affairs Bureau of MOFA and director-general of the Office of Planning for the Light Water Reactor Project.
He served in New York as minister at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations in New York from 1999-2002. He was then appointed as deputy executive director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), in charge of policy toward North Korea and the nuclear power project implementation. He participated in a number of negotiations with North Korea on nuclear programs, and was one of the early members in designing the mission of Korea Energy Development Organization from 2003-2005. He also served in Côte d'Ivoire, Singapore, and as ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran from 2007-2010.
A 1976 graduate of the Department of French Language and Literature at Seoul National University, Kim received his diploma in international relations at the International Institute of Public Administration in Paris, France, in 1982. In 2002, he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University.
