Park Soo-gil

Former Ambassdor to the U.N.

Date of Birth

• Oct. 18, 1933

Educational Background

1959

B.A. in Law, Korea University.

1969

M.A. in Humanitarian International Law School of International Relations, University of Southern California.

1972

M.I.A in International Affairs, School of International Affairs and Public Administration, Columbia Univ.

Career

1963

Joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

1969∼71

Chief, Division of Treaty Affairs

1973∼74

Chief, Division of Northeast Asian Affairs

1974∼75

Counselor, ROK Embassy in Australia

1976∼77

Counselor, Permanent Observer Mission to the UN

1977∼80

Director General, Treaty Affairs

1980∼84

Deputy Permanent Observer, ROK Observer Mission to the UN

1984∼86

ROK Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Canada

1991∼93

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, The Office of the UN in Geneva and GATT

1993∼95

Chancellor, Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security

1994

Special Envoy of the President on a Political Mission to the Republic of Iran, Kingdom of Jordan, Qatar and Oman

1995∼98

Permanent Representative of the ROK to the UN

1995∼98

Personal Envoy of the President on the Group of 16 on the Issue of UN Reform and Millennium Assembly

1996∼97

Chief Representative of the ROK, UN Security Council

1997

President, UN Security Council

1998 ~

Distinguished Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Korea University

1999

President, Korean Academic Council on the United Nations System

2000

Elected as Member of the United Nations Sub-commission on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights(Geneva)

2001

Rector, Graduate Institute of Peace Studies Kyung Hee University
Regular contributor of columns to leading newspapers in Korea (Including widely read articles on human right issues)

Publication

• Legal Aspects of the Repatriation of the Prisoners of War in the Korean Conflict
  (Monograph published in the University of Southern California and Korea University)