Cho Tae-yul

South Korean Foreign Minister (born 1955)
조태열
Cho in 2024
41st Minister of Foreign Affairs
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 January 2024PresidentYoon Suk YeolPrime MinisterHan Duck-sooPreceded byPark Jin Personal detailsBorn (1955-11-09) 9 November 1955 (age 68)
Yeongyang, North GyeongsangPolitical partyIndependentParent
  • Cho Chi-hun (father)
Alma materSeoul National UniversityKorean nameHangul
조태열
Hanja
趙兌烈
Revised RomanizationJo TaeyeolMcCune–ReischauerCho T'aeyŏl

Cho Tae-yul (Korean: 조태열; born 10 November 1955) is a South Korean diplomat. He is the 41st Foreign Minister.[1]

As foreign minister, Cho has presided over South Korea's support for Israel, which has been accused by critics and activists of ethnic cleansing and genocide.[2]

Career

Since starting his career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1979, Cho has gained a lot of experience on the international stage. He served as a diplomat in Thailand, the United States, and Saudi Arabia in the 1990s. And he served as the ambassador to Spain in 2008, and South Korean ambassador to the United Nations from 2016 to 2019 and the second vice foreign minister from 2013 to 2016 during the Park Geun-hye government.[3] He also served as the chairman of the World Trade Organization Dispute Committee and the chairman of the Geneva Government Procurement Committee.[1]

Foreign minister

On December 19, 2023, President Yoon Suk Yeol appointed Cho Tae-yul as the nominee for Foreign Minister to succeed former Minister Park Jin.[1] The presidential office said that his diplomatic insight and experience will greatly contribute to resolving various diplomatic issues facing the country.[3]

Cho and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a telephone conversation in February 2024 to discuss issues of mutual interest, including a wide range of aspects of bilateral relations, such as high-level exchanges and supply chain cooperation.[4]

See also

  • List of foreign ministers in 2024

References

  1. ^ a b c "Impact Player: Cho Tae-yul". CSIS. December 20, 2023.
  2. ^ ㈜플랜아이. "[전문가오피니언] 이스라엘-하마스 전쟁에 대한 서방의 반응과 한국에의 함의". EMERiCs 신흥지역정보 종합지식포탈 (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-09-09.
  3. ^ a b "Ex-top envoy to U.N. tapped as top diplomat". Yonhap News Agency. December 19, 2023.
  4. ^ "China invites S. Korean top diplomat, calls for 'positive, objective' policy". The Korea Herald. February 7, 2024.
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