Mr. Woongsoon Lim, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea (ROK), arrived in Ottawa on October 13, 2022. His recent assignments include Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) and Political Minister in the Korean Embassy in Washington D. C., and Deputy Consul-General in New York.
Mr. Lim joined the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1988. He served as Principal Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (2002), Director of European Division II (2005), Director of Humanitarian Assistance Division (2006), Deputy Director-General for North Korean Nuclear Affairs Bureau (2011), and Director-General for Human Resources (2014). His previous overseas postings to ROK embassies include Vienna (1995), Nairobi (1998), Washington D.C. (2002 & 2016), Rome (2008), Paris (2012), and Madrid (2019).
He holds a B.A. in Economics from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea (1988) and has received an Order of Service Merit (Red Stripes) in 2013. He is married to LEE Eun Sun with one son and one daughter.