Deputy Consul General Song-Hwan Kwon joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFA) in 1998 and served in the following overseas missions of the Republic of Korea: the Consulates in Los Angeles, Boston, Istanbul, Turkey and the Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela. He also worked as Assistant Secretary to the President at the Office of National Security and Director of North American Division II, Bureau of North American Affairs in MOFA and other various positions in the MOFA.
