Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday that it appointed Kim Dong-jo, senior officer at the Foreign Ministry’s department of policy planning and coordination, as its new spokesperson for foreign press.

“The new spokesperson joined the office as of today,” said an official connected to the senior presidential secretary for public affairs.

Having passed the state Foreign Service Examination in 1998, Kim worked in the ministry’s multilateral trade cooperation department and the protocol affairs department, as well as the presidential protocol secretary’s office.

He also served as first secretary in the South Korean Embassy in Geneva, Switzerland, and as councilor in Dakar, Senegal.

Kim’s predecessor Chun Hye-ran will be resuming her work in the ministry and is slated to join the Embassy in Milan, Italy.

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