New Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea Presents Credentials to the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva

Seongmee Yoon, the new Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented her credentials to Tatiana Valovaya, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to her arrival at Geneva, Ms. Yoon had been serving as Chair of the 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Senior Officials’ Meeting.  Before that, she served as Permanent Representative to the Conference of Disarmament and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations Office at Geneva from October 2022 to November 2024. She was Director-General for Protocol Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from November 2020 to September 2022.

Since she joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea in 1994, Ms. Yoon has held many other posts, including as Director-General, Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee, National Assembly Secretariat, from August 2019 to October 2020.  She was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York, United States from September 2018 to July 2019. 

Ms. Yoon served at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations in New York twice, as Minister-Counsellor from July 2015 to August 2018, and as First Secretary from January 2002 to May 2006.  She also served as First Secretary at the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the Philippines from June 2006 to November 2011, and as Counsellor at the Embassy in Qatar from July 2013 to June 2015.

Ms. Yoon was born in January 1972.

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