It turns out that the next administration of South Korea's Yoon Suk-yeol is considering former national diplomatic director Yun Duk-min, an international political scholar known as the "Japan-acculturated school," as a candidate for a new ambassador to Japan. I did.
The Korean media reports that the appointment is influential.
According to officials from the next administration, Yoon Suk-yeol, Yun Dong-min, who was the head of the think tank national diplomatic institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Korea, is being considered as a candidate for a new ambassador to Japan.
South Korean media have reported that Yun's appointment as an ambassador to Japan is likely, and Union News has reported that "it seems to have been virtually unofficially decided."
After studying abroad in the United States, Yun obtained a PhD from Keio University and is known as a "Japan-acculturated" international politician who is familiar with Japan-Korea relations and the fields of diplomacy and security.
He is fluent in Japanese and joined the Yun Sogyeol camp as a "diplomatic brain" in the March presidential election, and last month met with Prime Minister Kishida as a delegation to the next administration.
In an interview with NHK on the 3rd, he said, "Japan and South Korea need to put their knees together to solve the problems of both countries." rice field.
The next administration, Yun Seo-gyeol, is scheduled to be launched on the 10th of this month, and the personnel of the new administration, which is eager to improve Japan-South Korea relations, is being adjusted.