| Honorific Prefix: | The Honourable | ||||||||
| Park Jin | |||||||||
| Honorific Suffix: | MP CBE | ||||||||
| Office: | 40th Minister of Foreign Affairs | ||||||||
| President: | Yoon Suk Yeol | ||||||||
| Primeminister: | Han Duck-soo | ||||||||
| Term Start: | 12 May 2022 | ||||||||
| Term End: | 10 January 2024 | ||||||||
| Predecessor: | Chung Eui-yong | ||||||||
| Successor: | Cho Tae-yul | ||||||||
| Office1: | Member of the National Assembly | ||||||||
| Term Start1: | 30 May 2020 | ||||||||
| Term End1: | 29 May 2024 | ||||||||
| Predecessor1: | Jeon Hyun-hee | ||||||||
| Successor1: | Park Soo-min | ||||||||
| Constituency1: | Gangnam B | ||||||||
| Term Start2: | 9 August 2002 | ||||||||
| Term End2: | 29 May 2012 | ||||||||
| Predecessor2: | Roh Moo-hyun | ||||||||
| Successor2: | Chung Sye-kyun | ||||||||
| Constituency2: | Jongno | ||||||||
| Birth Date: | 16 September 1956 | ||||||||
| Birth Place: | Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||
| Party: | People Power Party | ||||||||
| Alma Mater: | Seoul National University (LLB) Harvard University (MPA) University of Oxford (DPhil) New York University (LLM) | ||||||||
| Allegiance: | Republic of Korea | ||||||||
| Branch: | Republic of Korea Navy | ||||||||
| Serviceyears: | 1980–1983 | ||||||||
| Rank: | Lieutenant JG (Korean: Jungwi) | ||||||||
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Park Jin [1] (; born 16 September 1956) is a South Korean diplomat and politician. He is a four-term member of the National Assembly and served as the 40th Foreign Minister.
Park passed the 11th Foreign Affairs Examination in 1977 and served as a Ministry of Foreign Affairs (South Korea) Officer in 1978. From 1980 to 1983, he served as a naval officer through a course of naval cadets. He was selected for the seventh term of state-funded international studies in 1983 and earned a master's degree in public administration at Harvard Kennedy School in 1985 and a Ph.D. in political science at Oxford University in 1993.
Since 1993, he has served as an overseas press secretary and political secretary at the presidential secretariat of the Kim Young-sam administration. Since 2002, he has served as the 16th and 17th lawmakers of Jongno-gu, Seoul, and served as the chairman of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee, taking the lead in ratifying the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement and passing the North Korean Human Rights Act.
In 2008, he visited the U.S. as the head of the Korea-U.S. Congressional Diplomatic Association and met Joe Biden, then chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
In 2020, he moved to Gangnam-gu B, Seoul, and was elected to the 21st National Assembly (South Korea). In May 2022, he was appointed Foreign Minister of the Yoon Suk-yeol government.
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