The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Korea is the official representative of the

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and the

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to the

and the

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. The ambassador and his staff work at large in the Embassy of Russia in

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. There is a

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. The post of Russian Ambassador to South Korea is currently held by , incumbent since 18 July 2018.

History of diplomatic relations

The

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established relations with the

Joseon Dynasty Joseon (; ; Middle Korean: 됴ᇢ〯션〮 Dyǒw syéon or 됴ᇢ〯션〯 Dyǒw syěon), officially the Great Joseon (; ), was the last dynastic kingdom of Korea, lasting just over 500 years. It was founded by Yi Seong-gye in July 1392 and re ...

in 1884.Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922). ; excerpt, "Treaty and Diplomatic Relations Between Korea and Russia. Treaty of Amity and Commerce dated June 24, 1884"; Kim, Chun-gil. (2005). However Korea was deprived of its right to conduct independent foreign policy by the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905, while the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the eventual successor to the Russian Empire) did not formally recognise the

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in exile. In 1948, three years after the end of

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, the USSR recognised only one government on the

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—the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly

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. In September 1990, towards the end of its existence, the USSR established relations with the Republic of Korea (commonly known as

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).Charles E. Ziegler.

List of heads of mission

Ministers of the Russian Empire to the Joseon Dynasty

Karl Ivanovich Weber Karl Ivanovich Weber (also Carl von Waeber; russian: Карл Иванович Вебер, – 8 January 1910) was a diplomat of the Russian Empire and a personal friend to King Gojong of Korea's Joseon Dynasty. He is best known for his 1885–1 ...

, appointed 14 October 1885

Ministers of the Russian Empire to the Korean Empire

(as above) *

Alexey Shpeyer Alexey Nikolayevich Shpeyer (russian: Алексей Николаевич Шпейер; 1854–1916) was a Russians, Russian diplomat. The Russian government had intended to send him to Korea in 1895 to replace Karl Ivanovich Weber as Russian cons ...

, appointed 28 March 1898 *

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,Warner, Denis Ashton. (2002). appointed 13 December 1898.

Ambassadors of the Soviet Union to the Republic of Korea

Ambassadors of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Korea

Notes

References

* Halleck, Henry Wager. (1861)
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* Kim, Chun-gil. (2005). ''The History of Korea.'' Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ;
OCLC 217866287
* Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922). ''Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament.'' Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office
OCLC 12923609
* Seung-Ho Joo and Tae-Hwan Kwak. (2001). ''Korea in the 21st Century.'' Huntington, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers.
OCLC 47200831
* Warner, Denis Ashton and Peggy Warner. (1974). ''The Tide at Sunrise: a History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.'' New York: Charterhouse
OCLC 422325975
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