List of ambassadors of China to South Korea

Ambassador of China to South Korea
National Emblem of the People's Republic of China
Incumbent Xing Haiming since January 2020
Inaugural holder	Zhang Tingyan
Formation	September 1992; 32 years ago (1992-09)
Website	http://kr.china-embassy.org

The Ambassador of China to South Korea is the official representative of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Korea.

Chinese-Korean diplomatic relations were well established before the Joseon period of Korean history. In 1882, the governments of the Kingdom of Great Joseon and in Beijing established diplomatic relations.[1]

The current official title of the incumbent diplomat is "Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Korea."

List of representatives

Ministers of Imperial China

• Hsu Sou Peng was appointed December 14, 1899.[2]
• Hsu Tai Shen was appointed November 12, 1901.[2]

Ambassadors of the Republic of China

• From 1949 to 1992 the governments in Taipei/Nanjing and Seoul maintained diplomatic relations on ambassadorial level.

Ambassadors of the People's Republic of China

#	Ambassador	Took office	Left office	Notes
1	Zhang Tingyan	September 1992	August 1998
2	Wu Dawei	September 1998	July 2001
3	Li Bin	October 2001	August 2005	[3]
4	Ning Fukui	September 2005	October 2008
5	Cheng Yonghua	October 2008	February 2010
6	Zhang Xinsen	March 2010	December 2013	[4]
7	Qiu Guohong	February 2014	December 2019	[5]
8	Xing Haiming	January 2020	July 2024
9	Fang Kun	July 2024	Incumbent	Charge d'affaires

See also

• China–Korea Treaty of 1882
• List of diplomatic missions in South Korea

Notes

1. Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922). Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament, p. 32-33., p. 32, at Google Books
2. Korean Mission p. 33., p. 33, at Google Books
3. Europa World Year Book 2004, p. 2511., p. 2511, at Google Books
4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Embassy in the ROK
5. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Chinese Ambassadors to R. O. K. (the Republic of Korea) [1], 驻大韩民国历任大使, [2]

References

• Halleck, Henry Wager. (1861). International law: or, Rules regulating the intercourse of states in peace and war New York: D. Van Nostrand. OCLC 852699
• Korean Mission to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, Washington, D.C., 1921-1922. (1922). Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. OCLC 12923609