Name Kim Hyun-jong Movies Shark Bait Parents Jeong Yeon-mi | Height 1.82 m Role Entertainer Music group SS501 (2005 – 2010) | |
TV shows Boys Over Flowers, Playful Kiss, Inspiring Generation, City Conquest, Barefooted Friends Similar People Lee Min‑ho, Kim Bum, Kim Hyung‑jun, Jung So‑min, Kim Joon Profiles | ||
Kim Hyun-jong (Korean: 김현종, Hanja: 金鉉宗, born September 27, 1959 in Seoul) is a former minister for trade in the Roh Moo-hyun administration, and is currently the 21st UN ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Republic of Korea.
From May 2003, the very beginning of the Roh administration, as the deputy minister for trade and later the minister for trade, he was one of the most central figures in Roh administration's trade policy for more than 4 years. In particular, he initiated numerous free trade agreement(FTA) plans or talks with Canada, India(CEPA), Mexico, MERCOSUR, GCC, Singapore, EFTA, ASEAN, and United States. The FTAs with Singapore, EFTA, ASEAN, and USA had been signed before he moved to UN. These 4 blocks and Chile(the first nation with which South Korean signed FTA) compose 25.78% of all South Korean trade(according to data in 2006).
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