List of ambassadors of Russia to South Korea

Russian Ambassador to South Korea
Arms of the Russian Federation
Incumbent Konstantin Vnukov
Website	http://seoul.rusembassy.org/

This is a List of Ambassadors from Russia to South Korea. The Russian Empire established relations with the Joseon Dynasty in 1884.^[1] However Korea was deprived of its right to conduct independent foreign policy by the Japan-Korea Treaty of 1905, while the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (the eventual successor to the Russian Empire) did not formally recognise Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in exile. In 1948, three years after the end of Japanese rule in Korea, the USSR recognised only one government on the Korean peninsula—the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, commonly North Korea.^[2] In September 1990, towards the end of its existence, the USSR established relations with the Republic of Korea (commonly known as South Korea).^[3]

The current official title of this diplomat is "Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Korea."

List of heads of mission

Ministers from the Russian Empire to the Joseon Dynasty

• Karl Ivanovich Weber, appointed October 14, 1885

Ministers from the Russian Empire to the Korean Empire

• Karl Ivanovich Weber (as above)
• Alexey Shpeyer, appointed March 28, 1898^[1]
• Paul Pavlov,^[4] appointed December 13, 1898.^[1]

Ambassadors from the Soviet Union to the Republic of Korea

• Oleg Sokolov^[3]

Ambassadors from the Russian Federation to the Republic of Korea

• Oleg Sokolov retained as first Russian ambassador^[5]
• Alexander Nikolayevich Panov^[5] (1992–1994)^[6]
• Teymuraz Ramishvili^[7]
• Konstantin Vnukov^[8]

See also

• Russia-Korea Treaty of 1884
• List of diplomatic missions in South Korea
• List of Ambassadors from Russia to North Korea

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., p. 32, at Google Books; excerpt, "Treaty and Diplomatic Relations Between Korea and Russia. Treaty of Amity and Commerce dated June 24, 1884"; Kim, Chun-gil. (2005). The History of Korea, p. 107., p. 107, at Google Books
2. "Unfriendly act laid to Russia by Korea", The New York Times, 1948-10-15, retrieved 2011-04-28
3. Charles E. Ziegler. Foreign policy and East Asia: learning and adaption in the Gorbachev era, p. 123, at Google Books
4. Warner, Denis Ashton. (2002). The Tide at Sunrise, p. 214., p. 214, at Google Books
5. Seung-Ho Joo and Tae-Hwan Kwak. (2001). Korea in the 21st Century, p. 198 n8., p. 198, at Google Books
6. Europa Publications. (2004). The International Who's Who 2004, p. 1282, at Google Books
7. Europa World Year Book 2004, p. 2512., p. 2512, at Google Books
8. Kim Se-jeong. "On Victory Day, Russia thinks about future relations with Korea," Korea Times. May 5, 2010.

References

• Halleck, Henry Wager. (1861). International law: or, Rules regulating the intercourse of states in peace and war New York: D. Van Nostrand. OCLC 852699
• Kim, Chun-gil. (2005). The History of Korea. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 9780313332968; ISBN 9780313038532; OCLC 217866287
• 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
• Seung-Ho Joo and Tae-Hwan Kwak. (2001). Korea in the 21st Century. Huntington, N.Y.: Nova Science Publishers. ISBN 9781560729907; OCLC 47200831
• Warner, Denis Ashton and Peggy Warner. (1974). The Tide at Sunrise: a History of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. New York: Charterhouse. OCLC 422325975