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Lee, a career diplomat, previously served as Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office and other International Organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, from 2018 to 2020.
He also served as Director-General for International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Seoul from 2016 to 2018.
Ambassador Lee served at Korean embassies in Austria, Morocco, and Hungary and at the Permanent Mission to the UN in New York.
The diplomatic ties between Bangladesh and South Korea was established in December 1973.
Since the opening of the resident embassy of the Republic of Korea in Dhaka in March 1975, seventeen Ambassadors of the Republic of Korea have served in Dhaka so far, said the Korean Embassy in Dhaka on Sunday.
Ambassador Lee is the eighteenth.
During the past four decades the two countries have enjoyed close ties and strengthened cooperative relations in all areas, said the Embassy.
The volume of bilateral trade reached around 1.7 billion US dollars last year and around 150 Korean companies are now investing in Bangladesh.
Under the special arrangement between the two countries, more than 10,000 Bangladeshis are working in Korea under the Korea’s Employment Permit System (EPS).