[Newsmaker] Kang Kyung-wha: Seoul's first-ever female FM nominee
Foreign affairsMay 21, 2017
President Moon Jae-in’s pick for foreign minister is a female diplomat with a career in the United Nations and who started off as a language expert. Kang Kyung-wha, who was nominated Sunday to lead the Foreign Ministry, has been serving as a special policy adviser to the UN secretary-general since December. The position was newly created by UN chief Antonio Guterres for Kang, who headed his transition team. “She is a diplomatic expert holding titles of the first and the best,” Moon told reporter