배의환 裵義煥

Banker and diplomat, fourth Governor of the Bank of Korea

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Life1904년 ~ 2001년
Era현대
Clan분성 배씨

Life & career

Bae Ui-hwan (裵義煥) was a banker and diplomat who served as the fourth Governor of the Bank of Korea. According to Wikipedia he was born on the 30th day of the sixth lunar month of 1904 and died in Los Angeles on 23 April 2001; he is from Gimhae and is grouped under the Bunseong Bae clan in Wikipedia's categories, though no sentence states his seat directly.

He joined the Bank of Chosun in 1923, was special adviser to the Minister of Finance of the military government in 1946 and chairman of the Federation of Financial Associations in 1947. He was Governor of the Bank of Korea from 1 June to 8 September 1960.

In 1961 he was minister at the mission in Japan and chief delegate to the Korea-Japan talks; he was ambassador to Argentina in 1964 and to the United Kingdom in 1967. He was an adviser to the National Unification Advisory Council in 1981 and a standing adviser to the New Democratic Republican Party in 1987.

Bank of Korea and Diplomacy

He was fourth Governor of the Bank of Korea in 1960, chief delegate to the Korea-Japan talks in 1961 and later ambassador to Argentina and the United Kingdom.

Grave

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Descendants

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