The Korea Society

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About Us

The Korea Society, the leading American organization dedicated to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding, and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea, announced today that Ambassador Mark C. Minton has been elected President, effective, May 1, 2010. Mr. Evans J.R. Revere, the current president, will complete his term as of April 30, 2010, as previously announced.

Ambassador Minton played a leading role in America's relations with Asia during a distinguished 32-year career as a Senior Foreign Service Officer. Ambassador Minton served as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia from September 2006 to September 2009 and was previously Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Korea. He also served as the country director for Korea and the deputy country director for Japan at the U.S. Department of State, in various diplomatic posts in Japan, in other positions at the U.S. Department of State, as a Pearson Fellow with the United States Senate and at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He also spent a year as a teaching Diplomat-in-Residence at the City College of New York.

Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard, who became the Chairman of The Korea Society in September 2009, expects to work closely with Ambassador Minton, as he assumes the leadership of The Korea Society.

History and Mission

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THE KOREA SOCIETY is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) organization with individual and corporate members that is dedicated solely to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea. In pursuit of its mission, the Society arranges programs that facilitate discussion, exchanges and research on topics of vital interest to both countries in the areas of public policy, business, education, intercultural relations and the arts. Funding for these programs is derived from contributions, endowments, grants, membership dues and program fees. From its base in New York City, the Society serves audiences across the country through its own outreach efforts and by forging strategic alliances with counterpart organizations in other cities throughout the United States as well as in Korea.

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Amb. Thomas C. Hubbard Assumes Chairmanship

Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard has become chairman of The Korea Society's board of directors. At a meeting of The Korea Society's board on September 21, 2009, Ambassador Hubbard formally assumed the chairmanship from Ambassador Donald P. Gregg. At the meeting, the board honored Ambassador Gregg for his 16 years of exemplary service to The Korea Society, including his special role in strengthening the ties between Americans and Koreans over the years, and voted to bestow the title of "chairman emeritus" on him.

About Ambassador Hubbard:

Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard is Senior Director at McLarty Associates in Washington, D.C., where he specializes in Asian affairs. A career Foreign Service Officer for nearly forty years, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea from 2001 to 2004, and before that as Ambassador to the Philippines from 1996-2000. Earlier in his career he served seven years in Japan, and is a Japanese speaker; and was Deputy Chief of Mission and acting Ambassador in Malaysia. He held key Washington postings including Philippines desk officer, country director for Japan, and principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific affairs. Increasingly involved in Korean Peninsular affairs in the 1990s, Ambassador Hubbard was a principal negotiator of the 1994 Agreed Framework aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, and headed the first senior level U.S. government delegation to North Korea. He was also President Clinton’s envoy to promote human rights and democracy in Burma. He received his B.A. in political science in 1965 from the University of Alabama and has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Maryland and the University of Alabama.

Board of Directors

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