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Korean Consul General at BYU lecture Sept. 20

Jeong Gwan Lee, Consul General for the Republic of Korea in San Francisco, will discuss "Korea–U.S. Relations" Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 3 p.m. in 238 Herald R. Clark Building on the Brigham Young University campus.
 
Lee has served as consul general of the Korean Consulate in San Francisco since early 2010. He has had a distinguished career since joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981, including director general, Overseas Koreans and Consular Affairs Bureau, MOFAT (2008), secondment to presidential committee on Northeast Asian Cooperation Initiative (2007), deputy consul general of the Korean Consulate in Los Angeles (2003) and director of North America Division, North American Affairs Bureau, Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.

He graduated from Seoul National University in 1982 and received a master’s degree from Georgetown University in 1988.
 
This lecture will be archived at kennedy.byu.edu/archive. For more information, contact Lee Simons at (801) 422-2652 or lee_simons@byu.edu.
 

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