Park Jin is a South Korean diplomat and politician who served as the minister of foreign affairs from 2022 to 2024. He was also a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2012 and again from 2020 to 2024. His career began in 1977 when he passed the 11th Foreign Affairs Examination, leading to a role as a Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officer in 1978.
Park pursued higher education, earning a master's degree in public administration from Harvard Kennedy School in 1985 and a Ph.D.