Pakistan, April 17 -- The ASEAN-Korea Centre said Tuesday it appointed former Korean Ambassador to the Philippines Kim Jae shin as its new secretary general.
Kim is a career diplomat, leading the Korean mission in the Philippines from 2015 to 2017, after serving as the ambassador to Germany from 2012 to 2015. He was the deputy foreign minister and a presidential secretary for foreign affairs during the 2008-2013 Lee Myung-bak administration.
He is a graduate of Korea University who majored in political science and international relations.
The ASEAN-Korea Centre was established in 2009 to increase trade, accelerate investment, invigorate tourism and enrich cultural and people-to-people exchange between ASEAN and Korea. The member states i...