List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to South Korea
| His Majesty's Ambassador to South Korea | |
|---|---|
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs | |
| Residence | Sejong-daero 19-gil 24, Jung-gu, Seoul |
| Appointer | The Crown on advice of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| Term length | At His Majesty's pleasure |
| Inaugural holder | Vyvyan Holt Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary |
| Formation | 1949 |
| Deputy | Sue Kinoshita, Minister Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission and Director of UK Trade and Investment |
| Salary | £95,000-£100,000[1] |
| Website | British Embassy Seoul |
The British ambassador to South Korea is in charge of the United Kingdom's diplomatic mission to South Korea. The official title is His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (ROK).
History
Under the
Minister Resident
when the United Kingdom and Korea exchanged envoys in 1901.
Consul-General in Seoul
British representative to Joseon (until 1897) and later Korean Empire (after 1897).
- 1884–1885: William George Aston[2]
- 1889–1896: Walter Hillier[3]
- 1896–1898: John Jordan[4]
Head of mission to Korea
Minister to China, non-resident Minister to Korea
Holders were station in Beijing.
- 1884–1885: Sir Harry Smith Parkes[5]
- 1885–1892: Sir John Walsham, 2nd Baronet[6]
- 1892–1895: Sir Nicholas O'Conor[7]
- 1896–1898: Sir Claude MacDonald[8]
Chargé d'affaires
- 1898–1901: John Jordan[9]
Minister Resident
- 1901–1905: Sir John Jordan[10]
Under the Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 Korea became a protectorate of Japan, and Britain and other countries withdrew diplomatic missions from Seoul. After World War II Japan's rule ended and Korea was occupied by the Soviet Union and United States, resulting in division of Korea between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
Korea under Japanese rule
From 1910 to 1945 Korea was under Dependent territory of the Empire of Japan, thus no longer required a diplomatic mission.
Head of mission to South Korea
The current mission represents
ambassador for North Korea
did not exist until 2000.
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
- 1949–1954: Captain Vyvyan Holt (consul-general from 1948).[11][12]
- 1954–1956: Charles Stewart[13]
- 1957: Hubert Evans[14]
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
- 1957–1961: Hubert Evans[15]
- 1961–1966: Sir Walter Godfrey[16]
- 1967–1969: Ian Clayton Mackenzie[17]
- 1969–1971: Nigel Trench[18]
- 1971–1974: Jeffrey Petersen[19]
- 1975–1980: William Bates[20]
- 1980–1983: John Morgan[21]
- 1983–1986: Nicholas Spreckley
- 1986–1990: Lawrence Middleton
- 1990–1993: David Wright
- 1994–1997: Thomas Harris[22]
- 1997–2000: Sir Stephen Brown[23]
- 2000–2003: Charles Humfrey[24]
- 2003–2008: Warwick Morris[25]
- 2008–2011: Martin Uden
- 2011–2015: Scott Wightman[26][27]
- 2015–2018: Charles Hay[28]
- 2018–2022[update]: Simon Smith[29]
- 2022–present: Colin Crooks[30]
See also
- List of diplomatic missions of the United Kingdom
- List of diplomatic missions in South Korea
- List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to North Korea
Notes
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ^ Kornicki, Peter, "Aston, Cambridge and Korea". Archived from the original on 3 June 2012. Retrieved 22 June 2010.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Cambridge University, Department of East Asian Studies, 2008. - ^ Addison, Henry Robert. (1901). Who's Who Vol. 53, p.568, p. 568, at Google Books; compare Note 12
- ^ Kit-ching Chan Lau, Anglo-Chinese Diplomacy 1906–1920: In the Careers of Sir John Jordan and Yuan Shih-kai, Hong Kong University Press, 1978
- ^ "No. 25326". The London Gazette. 7 March 1884. p. 1133.
- ^ "No. 25539". The London Gazette. 15 December 1885. p. 6066.
- ^ "No. 26281". The London Gazette. 22 April 1892. p. 2360.
- ^ "No. 26706". The London Gazette. 4 February 1896. p. 645.
- ^ "No. 26952". The London Gazette. 29 March 1898. p. 2021.
- ^ "No. 27344". The London Gazette. 9 August 1901. p. 5256.
- ^ "No. 38660". The London Gazette. 8 July 1949. p. 3344.
- ^ "No. 38702". The London Gazette. 30 August 1949. p. 4189.
- ^ "No. 40438". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 March 1955. p. 1780.
- ^ "No. 41067". The London Gazette. 10 May 1957. p. 2792.
- ^ "No. 41200". The London Gazette. 11 October 1957. p. 5919.
- ^ "No. 42346". The London Gazette. 5 May 1961. p. 3340.
- ^ "No. 44448". The London Gazette. 10 November 1967. p. 12218.
- ^ "No. 44830". The London Gazette. 18 April 1969. p. 4100.
- ^ "No. 45588". The London Gazette. 1 February 1972. p. 1282.
- ^ "No. 46566". The London Gazette. 6 May 1975. p. 5874.
- ^ "No. 48486". The London Gazette. 8 January 1981. p. 269.
- ^ UKIndia Business Council (UKIBC), Executive Board
- ^ The Diplomatic Service List 2005, page 138, Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- ^ "British Diplomats Directory" (PDF). gulabin.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
- ^ Barclay, Jennifer. A diplomatic career in Korea, Anglo-Korean Society. 14 May 2008.
- ^ UK in the Republic of Korea, Our ambassador
- ^ Scott Wightman (1 January 2015). "Tweet by Scott Wightman". Twitter. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
- ^ Charles Hay, British Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, gov.uk
- ^ "New U.K. Ambassador No Stranger to Korea". The Chosun Ilbo. 22 March 2018.
- ^ "Change of Her Majesty's Ambassador to the Republic of Korea". GOV.UK. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
References
- Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922). Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 12923609
External links
- UK and South Korea, gov.uk