Ambassador Tae-Ung Baik took up his duties as Permanent Representative of Korea to the OECD on 30 March 2026.
Mr. Baik is a legal scholar and attorney with extensive experience in academia, legal practice, and international human rights.
Admitted to the New York State Bar in 2003, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia from 2003 to 2010, where he also directed the Korean Legal Studies Program. Since 2010, he has been an Advisory Attorney with One Law Partners, LLC in Seoul.
He joined the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 2011 and was promoted to full professor in 2017. From 2018 to 2024, he served as Director of the Centre for Korean Studies at the university.
From 2015 to 2022, he was a member of the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), serving as Vice-Chair from 2018 to 2020 and Chair from 2020 to 2021.
Mr. Baik graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Seoul National University and later completed both his Master of Laws and Doctor of Laws at Notre Dame Law School in the United States. He is married and has one son.
