The South Korean government has announced that it will appoint former national diplomatic director Yun Duk-min, an international politician known as the "Japan-acculturated sect," as the new ambassador to Japan, and is working to improve the chilled relationship between Japan and South Korea. Is likely to be asked.

The Korean presidential office announced on the 7th that it will appoint Mr. Yun Dong-min, an international political scientist and former director of the National Foreign Affairs Agency, as the next ambassador to Japan.



Yun is 62 years old.



After studying abroad in the United States, he received his PhD from Keio University in 1991, and is known as a "Japan-acculturated school" who is familiar with Japan-Korea relations and the fields of diplomacy and security.



Under the administration of Park Geun-hye, he was the head of the National Diplomacy, a think tank under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was one of the "diplomatic brains" in the presidential election in March. Joined in.



He is fluent in Japanese, and in April he became a member of a delegation sent to Japan by the president ahead of his appointment and met with Prime Minister Kishida.



In an interview with NHK last month, Yun said, "Japan and South Korea need to put their knees together to solve the problems of both countries." It is likely that skill will be challenged to improve the relationship.