Kang Kyung-wha

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kang Kyung-wha
Occupation	Diplomat
Date Of Birth	Apr 7, 1955(1955-04-07)
Age	69
Birthplace	Seoul
Country	South Korea
Horoscope	Aries

Kang Kyung-wha Biography

Kang Kyung-wha is one of the most popular and richest Diplomat who was born on April 7, 1955 in Seoul, South Korea. Kang Kyung-wha (born 7 April 1955) is the Foreign Minister of South Korea, the first woman who was nominated to the post. Kang Kyung-wha is the only Korean woman who holds a top-level post within the United Nations. In the past, Kang was the first non- exam-taker to be promoted to director general in the ministry. Kang is only the second South Korean foreign minister to be part of in the formal South Korean delegation for the inter-Korean Summit as well as to travel to Pyongyang which is the capital of North Korea. North Korean capital.

In 1998, Kang was a member of in 1998 the Korean Foreign Service, without ever passing an exam for the Foreign Service Exam, as the Senior Research Officer at the The Foreign Ministry’s Institute of Foreign Affairs and National Security. In 1999, she was appointed as a Senior Advisor and Principal Speechwriter for the Foreign Minister, as well as the Chief Interpreter for the President. In her role as President’s translator for 3 years she was able to gain the confidence of President Kim thanks to her interpretation of his phone conversation to U.S. president Clinton.

From September 2001 to July 2005, Kang was Minister-Counselor and later Minister at Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations. During that time, she chaired the Commission on the Status of Women for its 48th and 49th session. Before and after working at the Permanent Mission, she worked as Deputy Director-General and Director General for the International Organisations of the Foreign Ministry. Later, she was appointed as Ambassador- at-Large for Global Affairs of the Ministry.

Kang held key roles in the United Nations under three consecutive Secretaries- General, from Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon to the current officeholder, Antonio Guterres. In September 2006, Kofi Annan appointed her as Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, equivalent to Assistant Secretary-General, after seeing her potential when she chaired the UN commission on women. She was appointed by Ban Ki-moon as Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator and Assistant Secretary-General for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in March 2013. In October 2016, she was appointed by then-Secretary-General-elect, António Guterres as Chief of the Secretary- General-designate’s Transition Team. Later in February 2017, she continued to work with Secretary-General Guterres as his Senior Advisor on Policy, equivalent to Under-Secretary-General, before resigning for the foreign minister of South Korea.

She also was active with women’s groups in Korea serving as spokesperson for Korean Women’s Association Korean Women’s NGO Committee for the Beijing Conference in 1995, she was a member of International Relations Committee of Korean National Council of Women, and director of the Korean Institute for Women and Politics.

Kang Kyung-wha Net Worth

Kang Kyung-wha is one of the richest Diplomat from South Korea. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kang Kyung-wha 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Kang is a native of Seoul, South Korea. Her father, who was born in Pyongyang, North Korea, was a famous announcer from the South Korean Korean Broadcasting System as well as the Second Board of Directors. Her family relocated into Washington, D.C. following her father’s work in Voice of America in 1964 and then returned to Seoul after two years.

In the 1990s, Kang became the English voice of the Seoul the subway.

She is married to Lee Yill-byung, an emeritus professor of computer science at Yonsei University, and has three children: two daughters and a son. In 2000, when Kang moved to Seoul from the US, she illegally forged her residency to get her daughter to attend a prestigious high school in Seoul. In 2017 she admitted to this address fraud, but the statute of limitation for such a misdemeanor had already expired.

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Who is Kang Kyung-wha Dating?

According to our records, Kang Kyung-wha married to Lee Il-byung. As of December 1, 2023, Kang Kyung-wha’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Kang Ranked on the list of most popular Diplomat. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Korea. Kang Kyung-wha celebrates birthday on April 7 of every year.