He was the Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993-94), the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Cyprus (1996-97), a member of the UN Inquiry Commission on the 1994 Rwanda Genocide (1999), Chairman of the East Asia Vision Group (2000-01), and Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States (2003-05).

He also served as the Director of Ilmin International Relations Institute at Korea University (1995-2002).

Prof. Han is a graduate of Seoul National University and received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Previously, he taught at the City University of New York (1970-78) and was a visiting professor at Columbia University (1986-87) and Stanford University (1992, 1995).

He was also a distinguished fellow at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (1986-87).

English publications include Korean Diplomacy in an Era of Globalization (1995), Korea in a Changing World (1995), and Changing Values in Asia (1999).

He has many publications in Korean, including Nam gwa Puk, kurigo Sekye (The Two Koreas and the World) (2000).

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