Title
Director General of Information & International Affairs Bureau Company
Bio
Mr.
Il-sok CHUNG is Director General of Information Management & International
Cooperation Bureau at the Korea Customs Service(KCS). Since he passed the 30th
State Exam for Higher Civil Servants in 1986, he has held a number of major
positions at the KCS: Director of Information Management Division at the KCS,
Director General of Clearance Bureau at the Incheon Customs, Consul of the
Republic of Korea in Hong Kong, and Director of Audit Policy Division at the
KCS. In particular, he had worked for the WCO Secretariat for two years from
December 1996 to December 1998.
Director
General CHUNG leads and supervises the development/operation of customs
administration informatization system for accurate and fast process. He is also
responsible for the Promotion of Korea’s e-clearance system (UNI-PASS),
comprehensive risk management, the conclusion of MRAs with foreign Customs, and
cooperation with international organizations such as WCO, APEC, ASEM, and WTO.
In
particular, he has contributed a lot to the designation of Korea as the WCO
Regional Training Center (RTC) in 2010, and to the creation of CCF-Korea. He is
also carrying out projects to share Korea’s experience with members in the
region in the area of AEO, DM, and SW for capacity building.
He
earned his B.A. in Trade from Seoul National University, Korea in 1985 and M.A.
in Economics from University of Syracuse, U.S.A. in 1994.
