The Foreign Ministry on Thursday introduced new consuls general for San Francisco, Sydney, Chicago and Frankfurt.

As part of a regular reshuffle, it also appointed 10 directors general and four deputy directors general including those in charge of North American and Northeast Asian affairs and preparing a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula. 

Shin Chae-hyun, director general for North American affairs, was tapped as the new head of the consulate general in San Francisco. The other three new consuls general are Lee Jong-kook, advisory ambassador for international cooperation to the state-run Korea Institute for National Unification (Chicago); Yoon Sang-soo, dean of planning and assessment at the ministry-affiliated Korea National Diplomatic Academy (Sydney); and Baek Bum-heum, chief of the consular office in Dalian, China (Frankfurt).

Shin is succeeded by Yeo Seung-bae, who has been running the planning and management bureau, which will be handed over to Lee Heon, a former deputy consul general at the consulate general in Hong Kong.

While Deputy Director General for Northeast Asian Affairs Chung Byung-won was promoted to director general, Cho Koo-rae, who served as deputy director general for North American Affairs, will lead the human Resources bureau.

Kim Yong-hyun, deputy director general for the Office of Korean Peninsular Peace and Security Affairs, was appointed as the new director general for the Korean Peninsula peace regime.

By Shin Hyon-hee (heeshin@heraldcorp.com)