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▲ Ambassador Yoon giving an address on the anniversary of the Cairo Declaration in Egypt in 2019.
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September 2021
Yoon Yeocheol: A Diplomat’s Thoughts
On His Life, Gwangju’s Future, and South Korea’s Global Mission Inter viewed by the World Human Rights Cities Forum Secretariat Yoon Yeocheol is the Ambassador for International Relations at Gwangju Metropolitan City and has been involved in international relations representing Korea in many capacities. At the World Human Rights Cities Forum, Ambassador Yoon will lead the session on Myanmar. The Gwangju News thanks him and the World Human Rights Cities Forum (WHRCF) Secretariat for conducting this interview for the Gwangju News.
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HRCF: Thank you for taking the time to accept this interview request. For starters, would you mind telling us a little bit about yourself, including your background?
Ambassador Yoon: I am a Korean diplomat with 37 years of experience. I studied at Seoul National University
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and its Graduate School for Public Administration, and at Dartmouth College and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the United States. I have been posted four times in the United States: the Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C., the Office of the President of the UN General Assembly, the Korean Mission to the UN, and the Office of the UN Secretary-General in the UN Secretariat,
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