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Member state

South Korea at the United Nations

Flag of South Korea
Flag of South Korea.svg (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Admitted
1991-09-17
ISO 3166-1
KR / KOR
Admitted by
A/RES/46/1

International organisations

Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.

OrganisationJoined
United Nations 1991-09-17

Service on principal organs

Elected terms as recorded by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. A year marked pending is one the Library publishes as a partial list because its elections have not yet been held.

Economic and Social Council

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Human Rights Council

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Security Council

2025 2024 2014 2013 1997 1996

Permanent representatives

2 recorded. Full list

NameFromTo
Chae-Hyun Shin 2019-06in office / not recorded
Ban Ki-moon 2007-01-012017-01-01

Permanent mission

Mission
Permanent Mission of South Korea to the United Nations
Address
Permanent Mission of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations, 335 East 45th Street, New York, NY 10017
National holiday
3 October
Accredited diplomats
37

Accredited diplomats

The numbers

IndicatorLatestYearSince 1970
CO2 emissions per capita 11.3623 2024
GDP 1.87237e+12 2025
GNI per capita 37,880 2025
Life expectancy at birth 83.6293 2024
Military expenditure (% of GDP) 2.56205 2024
Net official development assistance received -5.51e+07 1999
Population 5.16846e+07 2025
Refugees hosted (UNHCR mandate) 4,407 2025
Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) 117 2025

World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.

General Debate statements

35 statements to the General Debate since 1991, 79,646 words in all. The longest was 1991, at 3,653 words, delivered by ROH TAE WOO.

Of the 32 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×16, President ×12, Prime Minister ×2, Minister of Foreign Affairs ×1. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.

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Emblems and location

Coat of arms of South Korea
Coat of arms. Emblem of South Korea.svg by Government of the Republic of Korea (Public domain) — Wikimedia Commons
Location of South Korea
Location. South Korea (orthographic projection).svg by Ksiom (CC BY-SA) — Wikimedia Commons

Treaties joined

80 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.

TreatySignedRatified or acceded
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations - 9 Apr 1992 a
Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the Specialized Agencies - 13 May 1977 a
Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations 28 Mar 1962 28 Dec 1970
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning Acquisition of Nationality 30 Mar 1962 7 Mar 1977
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes 30 Mar 1962 25 Jan 1977
Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - 7 Mar 1977 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning Acquisition of Nationality - 7 Mar 1977 a
Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Disputes - 7 Mar 1977 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide - 14 Oct 1950 a
Convention on the Rights of the Child 25 Sep 1990 20 Nov 1991
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 30 Mar 2007 11 Dec 2008
International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance - 4 Jan 2023 a
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 8 Aug 1978 5 Dec 1978
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - 10 Apr 1990 a
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 10 Apr 1990 a
Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - 10 Apr 1990 a
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women 25 May 1983 27 Dec 1984
Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment - 9 Jan 1995 a
Constitution of the World Health Organization - 17 Aug 1949 A
Agreement on the establishment of the International Vaccine Institute 28 Oct 1996 17 Dec 1996
WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control 21 Jul 2003 16 May 2005
Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees - 3 Dec 1992 a
Protocol for Limiting and Regulating the Cultivation of the Poppy Plant, the Production of, International and Wholesale Trade in, and use of Opium 23 Jun 1953 29 Apr 1958
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 30 Mar 1961 13 Feb 1962
Convention on psychotropic substances - 12 Jan 1978 a
Protocol amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961 29 Dec 1972 25 Jan 1973
United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances - 28 Dec 1998 a
United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods - 17 Feb 2004 a
Charter of the Asian and Pacific Development Centre - 9 Sep 1982 s
United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts 15 Jan 2008 -
Framework Agreement on Facilitation of Cross-border Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific - 28 Nov 2022 a
Agreement establishing the Asian Development Bank 4 Dec 1965 16 Aug 1966
Agreement establishing the International Fund for Agricultural Development 2 Mar 1977 26 Jan 1978
Constitution of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization 7 Oct 1980 30 Dec 1980
Customs Convention on Containers, 1972 15 Jan 1973 19 Oct 1984
Customs Convention on the International Transport of Goods under Cover of TIR Carnets (TIR Convention) - 29 Jan 1982 a
Agreement concerning the adoption of harmonized technical United Nations Regulations for wheeled vehicles, equipment and parts which can be fitted and/or be used on wheeled vehicles and the conditions for reciprocal recognition of approvals granted on the basis of these United Nations Regulations - 1 Nov 2004 a
Agreement concerning the Establishing of Global Technical Regulations for Wheeled Vehicles, Equipment and Parts which can be fitted and/or be used on Wheeled Vehicles - 2 Nov 2000 a
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Asian Highway Network 26 Apr 2004 13 Aug 2004
Intergovernmental Agreement on the Trans-Asian Railway Network (with annexes) 10 Nov 2006 5 Feb 2008
Intergovernmental Agreement on Dry Ports 7 Nov 2013 22 Apr 2014
Convention on the International Maritime Organization - 10 Apr 1962 A
Convention on a Code of Conduct for Liner Conferences - 11 May 1979 a
International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations - 18 Dec 2008 a
Convention for the Protection of Producers of Phonograms against Unauthorized Duplication of their Phonograms - 1 Jul 1987 a
International Agreement for the Establishment of the University for Peace - 11 Jun 2010 a
International Sugar Agreement, 1992 23 Dec 1992 15 Apr 1993
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2006 - 3 Feb 2009 s
Food Assistance Convention - 31 Jan 2018 a
Convention on the Political Rights of Women - 23 Jun 1959 a
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 8 Mar 2000 13 Nov 2002
International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism 9 Oct 2001 17 Feb 2004
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 13 Dec 2000 5 Nov 2015
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Criminal Court 28 Jun 2004 18 Oct 2006
United Nations Convention against Corruption 10 Dec 2003 27 Mar 2008
International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages - 4 May 1983 a
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents - 25 May 1983 a
Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel - 8 Dec 1997 a
International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings 3 Dec 1999 17 Feb 2004
Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction 31 Oct 2023 19 Mar 2025
Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks 26 Nov 1996 1 Feb 2008
Agreement on the Privileges and Immunities of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - 26 Oct 2004 a
Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards - 8 Feb 1973 a
United Nations Convention on International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation 7 Aug 2019 -
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties between States and International Organizations or between International Organizations 29 Jun 1987 -
Convention relating to the distribution of programme-carrying signals transmitted by satellite - 19 Dec 2011 a
Constitution of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity 8 Jul 1977 8 Jul 1977
Agreement establishing the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development 11 Oct 1978 6 Mar 1981
Convention on the prohibition of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques - 2 Dec 1986 a
Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons which may be deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to have Indiscriminate Effects (with Protocols I, II and III) - 9 May 2001 a
Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on their Destruction 14 Jan 1993 28 Apr 1997
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty 24 Sep 1996 24 Sep 1999
Arms Trade Treaty 3 Jun 2013 28 Nov 2016
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa 14 Oct 1994 17 Aug 1999
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade 7 Sep 1999 11 Aug 2003
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 4 Oct 2001 25 Jan 2007
Minamata Convention on Mercury 24 Sep 2014 22 Nov 2019
Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer - 27 Feb 1992 a
Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal - 28 Feb 1994 a
Convention on Biological Diversity 13 Jun 1992 3 Oct 1994

Recorded votes

ResolutionDateVote
A/RES/80/282 - yes
A/RES/80/286 - yes
A/RES/80/296 - yes
A/RES/80/293 B - yes
A/RES/80/294 - yes
A/RES/80/293 A - yes
A/RES/80/297 - yes
A/RES/80/299 - yes

Provenance

Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.

AttributeValueSourceConfidenceFetched
iso2KR wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901549+00:00
iso3KOR wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901560+00:00
m49410 un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134376+00:00
nameSouth Korea wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901526+00:00
un_admission_date1991-09-17 wikidata 1.02026-08-26T06:55:17.901538+00:00
unsd_nameRepublic of Korea un_sdg 1.02026-08-26T06:55:41.134386+00:00

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