Ban Ki moon
Ban Kimoon is a South Korean statesman and politician who is the eighth and current SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations. Before becoming SecretaryGeneral, Ban was a career diplomat in South Koreas Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated from university, accepting his first post in New Delhi, India.
Ban was born onJune 1944 in the small farming village of Haengchi, Wonnam Township , in Eumseong County, North Chungcheong Province in Korea. His family then moved to the nearby town of Chungju, where he grew up. During Bans childhood, his father had a warehouse business, but the warehouse went bankrupt and the family lost its middleclass standard of living. When Ban was six, his family fled to a remote mountainside for much of the Korean War. After the war ended, his family returned to Chungju. At this time, Ban has mentioned meeting American soldiers.
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