List of diplomatic missions of South Korea

Diplomatic missions of South Korea shall be classified into Embassy (Korean: 대사관), Representative Office (대표부) and Consulate-General (총영사관).

[1] In the 1980s the Roh Tae-woo administration gradually initiated diplomatic links with Warsaw Pact countries, in a policy known as Nordpolitik.

This led to the opening of representative offices and later embassies in socialist regimes in Europe and Asia.

The Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s and an export-orientated trade policy led to South Korea to rationalize its diplomatic network.

However, after bouncing back from the crisis, South Korea continues to open and re-open diplomatic missions in many countries.