Photo: Office of the President of the Republic of Korea/Lee Jae-myung / KOGL Type 1 (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Lee Jong-seok

李鍾奭　/　い・じょんそく

Politician

May 11, 1958 (age 68)

politician
political scientist

My Take

What strikes me about Lee Jong-seok is the rare arc from scholar to spymaster. He's a South Korean political scientist who climbed into the most sensitive corridors of the state, serving as Minister of Unification and chairing the National Security Council before later directing the National Intelligence Service. Inter-Korean affairs are unforgiving territory, and the fact that an academic was trusted to run both unification policy and the intelligence apparatus tells me he was valued for analytical depth rather than political theater. I read him as a thinker who chose to operate the levers he once studied, which is a far harder and lonelier path than commentary.

Overview

Lee Jong-seok (born May 11, 1958) is a South Korean politician who is director of the South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS). He formerly served as the South Korean Minister of Unification and chairman of the National Security Council, having succeeded Chung Dong-young on February 10, 2006.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Lee Jong-seok
Name (Japanese): 李鍾奭
Reading: い・じょんそく
Born: May 11, 1958 (age 68)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Taurus / Dog
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: politician / political scientist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Yongsan High School
University: Sungkyunkwan University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E9%8D%BE%E5%A5%AD

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