List of ambassadors of China to South Korea

The Chinese ambassador in Seoul is the official representative of the Government in Beijing to the Government of South Korea.

  • Chinese-Korean diplomatic relations were well established before the Joseon period of Korean history.
  • In 1882 the governments of the Kingdom of Great Joseon and in Beijing established diplomatic relations.[1]
  • The current official title of this diplomat is "Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Korea."
Chinese Ambassador to the South Korea
Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Incumbent
Xing Haiming
since February 2020
Inaugural holderHsu Sou Peng
Formationappointed December 14, 1899
Websitehttp://kr.china-embassy.org

List of heads of mission

Ministers of Imperial China
  • Hsu Sou Peng was appointed December 14, 1899.[2]
  • Hsu Tai Shen was appointed November 12, 1901.[2]

Ambassadors of the Republic of China
  • From 1949 to 1992 the governments in Taipei/Nanjing and Seoul maintained diplomatic relations on ambassadorial level.

Ambassadors of the People's Republic of China
# Ambassador Took office Left office Notes
1 Zhang Tingyan September 1992 August 1998
2 Wu Dawei September 1998 July 2001
3 Li Bin October 2001 August 2005 [3]
4 Ning Fukui September 2005 October 2008
5 Cheng Yonghua October 2008 February 2010
6 Zhang Xinsen March 2010 December 2013 [4]
7 Qiu Guohong February 2014 December 2019 [5]
8 Xing Haiming February 2020 present

See also

Notes
  1. 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, p. 32-33., p. 32, at Google Books
  2. Korean Mission p. 33., p. 33, at Google Books
  3. Europa World Year Book 2004, p. 2511., p. 2511, at Google Books
  4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China,, Embassy in the ROK
  5. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Chinese Ambassadors to R. O. K. (the Republic of Korea) , 驻大韩民国历任大使,

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