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Yi Beom-seok
Better known to foreigners as Lee Beom Seok, he was foreign minister of ROK from May 1982 until his death in the 1983 Rangoon bombing incident.
YI BEOM-SEOK (1922-1983). Better known to foreigners as Lee Beom Seok, he was foreign minister of the Republic of Korea (ROK) from May 1982 until his death in the 1983 Rangoon bombing incident. He was born in Pyongyang, and graduated from Bosung College, the forerunner of Korea University in 1936. He later studied at the University of Maryland and at George Washington University in Washington D.C. He served in the military during the Korean War, and later joined the Foreign Ministry. He was vice president of the (Republic of) Korea Red Cross in 1972, and in this role he was the senior South Korean delegate to the North-South Red Cross Talks from 1972 to 1976. In 1976, he became ambassador to India. When Chun Doo-hwan became president in 1980, Yi was appointed minister of national unification, but achieved little before becoming foreign minister.
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