WHO IS BAN KI-MOON?
The post of UN Secretary General offers one man the ability to mightily influence the world. It is therefore a good idea to know more about the person who sits in that seat. Today we’re going to turn our attention to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of Korea, who succeeded Kofi Annan in 2007. Ban Ki-moon was born in small farming village in Northern Korea’s Chungcheongbuk-do in 1944 to a middle-class warehouse owner. He was raised for a short time in Chungju, until the Korean War sent his family fleeing into the rural mountain regions for safety. Always ambitious and studious, Ban excelled at his studies, particularly the English language, and graduated in 1970 from the University of Seoul, where he holds a BA in International Relations. He earned the highest possible score in the Korean Foreign Service Examination after his graduation from university. Ban went on to study at the John F. Kennedy at Harvard and earned his Masters in Public Administration. Ban met his wife Yoo Soon-taek in
