Gong Hyeon-U

Gong Hyeon-U
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 孔鉉佑
Simplified Chinese 孔铉佑
Korean name
Hangul 공현우
Hanja 孔鉉佑

Gong Hyeon-U[1] is a Chinese diplomat and the current assistant minister of the Ministry of foreign affairs of China. He is currently responsible of Asian affairs, treaty and law, land and sea boundaries and other affairs related to consulates.[2]

Life

Gong was born in Heilongjiang province in the year of 1959 in an ethnic Korean family. Between 1979 and 1983, He studied Arabic and Japanese language in Shanghai International Studies University. Between 1983 and 1985 Gong studied foreign relations in China Foreign Affairs University. His first post was in the Chinese consulate of Osaka as an office clerk (1985-1989). In 2006, Gong was appointed the envoy of the embassy of China in Japan. Between 2011 and 2014, he was the ambassador of China in Vietnam. After worked shortly as the deputy of Asian affairs, he was appointed the assistant minister of the ministry of foreign affairs in 2015. [3][4]In August 2017, Gong succeeded Wu Dawei as the chief representative of China in Six-party talks.[5]

During his years in Japan, Gong worked together with the current Chinese ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai and Minister of Foreign affair Wang Yi. The three are said to have deep friendship. [6]

According to South Korean media JoongAng Ilbo, when meeting with delegations of Korean parliamentarians, Gong expressed his regret on Korea's decision of deploying THAAD. However the media also reports that Gong does not wish the Sino-Korean relationship to worsen because of the THAAD.[7]

Gong Hyeon-U is married and has one daughter. [3]

Sources

  1. ↑ "조선족 공현우 아주사장으로, 사상 최초". Dongbei net. 2014-04-14.
  2. ↑ "Kong Xuanyou". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
  3. 1 2 "孔铉佑 个人简历". Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
  4. ↑ Jiang, Ziwen (2015-12-15). "外交部亚洲司司长孔铉佑升任部长助理". The Paper.
  5. ↑ 尹, 完準. "中六方会谈首席代表、朝鲜族出身的孔铉佑被任命为部长助理". The Dong-a Ilbo.
  6. ↑ Zhang, Di (2017-08-15). "孔铉佑接替武大伟任朝鲜事务特别代表 他是谁？". 解放日报.
  7. ↑ "「中国国民、テレビで韓国アイドルを見れば嫌悪感…それで制裁」". JoongAng Ilbo. 2017-01-05.
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