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Interview With H.E. Erdenetuya Namsrai, Ambassador of Mongolia to the Republic of Korea
September 27, 2021 ㅡ Asia Society Korea invited H.E. Erdenetuya Namsrai, Ambassador of Mongolia to the Republic of Korea, to examine the most salient of issues impacting South Korea and Mongolia. A career diplomat with a strong background in the Korean Peninsula, she sat down with Asia Society Korea Executive Director Yvonne Kim to discuss everything from cultural similarity of the two nations to Mongolia-ROK cooperation in the context of Northeast Asian peace and prosperity.
H.E. Erdenetuya Namsrai speaks at the New Ambassadors Welcome Dinner on May 31, 2021. She was one of the seven new heads of mission introduced that evening at Asia Society Korea's dinner event held in the Lotte Hotel Seoul.
About H.E. Erdenetuya Namsrai, Mongolian Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
H.E. Erdenetuya Namsrai began her diplomatic career at the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Mongolia in 1993 as a Korea Desk Officer at the Department of Multilateral Cooperation. In 1996 she served as Korean Desk Officer in the Department of International Trade and Development Cooperation.
In 1999, she was promoted to Third Secretary and was assigned to the Attaché position at the Embassy of Mongolia to the Republic of Korea. Later she served as the Korean Desk Officer at the Department of Asia and North America in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia. In 2007, she was promoted to Second Secretary at the Embassy of Mongolia to the Republic of Korea and then to First Secretary in 2010. In 2012, she assumed the role of Counsellor of Political Affairs at the embassy and in 2015 the position of Director of Northeast Asian Cooperation Division at the Department of Multilateral Cooperation where she started her diplomatic career. After serving as Minister-Counsellor and Charge d’Affaires at the embassy in South Korea she became the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Mongolia to the Republic of Korea in February 2021.
The Ambassador graduated from Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, North Korea in 1993 and received her Master of Arts in Korean Studies from the University of Humanities, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia in 2007. She is fluent in Korean and English.