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Kim Hyun-jong ( ko, 김현종,
Yoon & Yang LLC
(then-Kim Shin & Yu) and
Hanja
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(, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...
: 金鉉宗, born 27 September 1959 in Seoul
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) is a former minister for trade under Presidents Roh Moo-hyun
Roh Moo-hyun (; ; 1 September 1946 – 23 May 2009) was a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the ninth president of South Korea between 2003 and 2008.
Roh's pre-presidential political career was focused on human rights advocacy for ...
and Moon Jae-in
Moon Jae-in (; ; born 24 January 1953) is a South Korean former politician, civil servant and lawyer who served as the 12th president of South Korea between 2017 and 2022. Prior to his presidency, he served as Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs an ...
.
From May 2003, the very beginning of the Roh administration, as the deputy minister for trade and later the minister for trade, he was one of the most central figures in Roh administration's trade policy for more than 4 years. In particular, he initiated numerous free trade agreement
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(FTA) plans or talks with Canada, India (CEPA), Mexico, MERCOSUR
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, GCC, Singapore
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, EFTA
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, ASEAN
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, and United States. The FTAs with Singapore, EFTA, ASEAN, and USA had been signed before he moved to UN. These 4 blocks and Chile (the first nation with which South Korean signed FTA) compose 25.78% of all South Korean trade (according to data in 2006).
Under President Moon, Kim served as his first Trade Minister. He led the re-negotiation of the KORUS FTA. In 2019 he was reshuffled to Office of National Security
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as its Deputy Director responsible for coordinating foreign and inter-korean policies. In 2021 he was again reshuffled to President Moon's Special Advisor on foreign policy.
He also took various roles representing South Korean government at the WTO
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in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and e ...
, UN and APEC
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Moreover, he previously worked for Milbank LLP, Skadden
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Yoon & Yang LLC
(then-Kim Shin & Yu) and
Samsung Electronics
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.
He taught international trade at South Korean universities - Hongik University
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and Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (abbreviated as HUFS; Korean: 한국외국어대학교) is a private research university based in Seoul, in South Korea. HUFS consistently ranks as one of the best universities in South Korea. The university ...
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He holds three degrees from Columbia University
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: B.A. (1981) and M.A. (1982) in Political Science and a J.D. (1985) from Columbia Law School in New York. He also graduated from Wilbraham & Monson Academy
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in Massachusetts
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in 1977.
Honors
*Order of Service Merit
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by the government of South Korea (2009)
Publications
* The Trend of Block Economy and NAFTA (1995) * When are Government Loans Subsidies? Hanbo Steel and the Application of the WTO Subsidies Agreement (1998)See also
* Republic of Korea-United States Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) *List of Free Trade Agreements
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People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby union ...
References
1959 births Living people South Korean diplomats 20th-century South Korean lawyers Permanent Representatives of South Korea to the United Nations