OH JOON AMBASSADOR REPUBLIC OF KOREA BORN: 4 October 1955 AGE: 54 MARITAL Married to Kim Miri STATUS: Has two daughters EDUCATION: Graduated from Department of French Language and Literature, Seoul National University, Seoul Korea (1978) Diploma in International and Comparative Politics, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom (1983) M.A in International Policy, Graduate School of Stanford University, USA (1992) CAREER: 1978 Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) 1985 Second Secretary, Korean Permanent Mission to the United Nations, New York, USA 1992 Director, Foreign Language Training Division, Office of Education and Training,Institute of Foreign Affairs and Nationalecurity S (IFANS), MOFA 1993 Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs CAREER: 1995 Director, United Nations Policy Division, (Cont'd) United Nations System Bureau, MOFA 1996 Counsellor, Korean Embassy in Malaysia 1999 Deputy Director – General for Asia – Europe Meeting (ASEM) Affairs 2001 Assistant to the President of the U.N General Assembly, New York, USA 2002 Minister, Korean Embassy in the Federative Republic of Brazil 2003 Director – General for International Organizations, Office of Policy Planning and International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) 2005 Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative, Korean Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, USA 2007 Special Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade 2008 Deputy Minister for Multilateral and Global Affairs, MOFAT 15 December Ambassador-designate to the Republic of 2009 Singapore 25 March 2010 Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore AWARDS: Order of Service Merit (Yellow Stripes), Dec 2006 Presidential Citation, 2000 Order of Service Merit (Green Stripes), Jun 1996 LANGUAGES: Korean, English, French (spoken and written) HOBBIES: Running, music . March 2010 .