Park Jin


Park Jin is a South Korean diplomat and politician. He is a four-term member of the National Assembly and served as the 40th Foreign Minister.
As foreign minister, Park presided over South Korea's controversial support for Israel and Azerbaijan during the Gaza war and 2023 Azerbaijani offensive in Nagorno–Karabakh respectively, as both countries were accused of genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Biography

Park passed the 11th Foreign Affairs Examination in 1977 and served as a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (South Korea) Officer in 1978. From 1980 to 1983, he served as a naval officer through a course of naval cadets. He was selected for the seventh term of state-funded international studies in 1983 and earned a master's degree in public administration at Harvard Kennedy School in 1985 and a Ph.D. in political science at Oxford University in 1993.
Since 1993, he has served as an overseas press secretary and political secretary at the presidential secretariat of the Kim Young-sam administration. Since 2002, he has served as the 16th and 17th lawmakers of Jongno-gu, Seoul, and served as the chairman of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee, taking the lead in ratifying the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement and passing the North Korean [Human Rights Act].
In 2008, he visited the U.S. as the head of the Korea-U.S. Congressional Diplomatic Association and met Joe Biden, then chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In 2020, he moved to Gangnam-gu B, Seoul, and was elected to the 21st National Assembly (South Korea). In May 2022, he was appointed Foreign Minister of the Yoon Suk-yeol government.
In 2024, he ran in Seodaemun-gu B district in Seoul but was unsuccessful.

Career