Kim Yung-ho

Kim Yung-ho
김영호
Minister of Unification
Assumed office
7 July 2023
PresidentYoon Suk Yeol
Lee Jae-myung
Prime MinisterHan Duck-soo
Lee Ju-ho (acting)
Preceded byKwon Young-se
Personal details
Born (1959-08-01) 1 August 1959
Dalseong, North Gyeongsang, South Korea
Alma materSeoul National University (BA)
Boston University (MA)
University of Virginia (PhD}

Kim Yung-ho (Korean: 김영호, born 1 August 1959) is a South Korean political and diplomatic scholar and Minister of Unification. He was born in the southeastern city of Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province. He majored in diplomacy at Seoul National University and received a doctorate from the University of Virginia in the United States. He also worked as a researcher at the Sejong Institute and began teaching political and diplomatic studies at Sungshin Women's University in Seoul in 1999.