Senior Inspector, International Cooperation Specialist
Korea Coast Guard
Jeana Kim joined Korea Coast Guard(KCG) in 2005, for having experience in working with foreign countries. Before she joined the KCG she worked as a starter member and Deputy Section Chief of the Novera Optics Korea, Inc., a US Company in Korea that was based in San Jose, CA.
After she joined the KCG, most of her career engages planning or innovative performance at Taean CG Station, Pyeongtaek CG Station, ect. She also worked as an instructor at the Korea Coast Guard Academy in her early career.
Her first international affairs career started in 2016, working for the Minister of Public Safety and Security, Seoul. In 2017, when the KCG became an independent agency under the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, she was transferred to the International Cooperation Division, KCG HQs. Since then, she engaged in many international affairs related to KCG, expanding her relationship with many CG countries around the world. She specialized in Police Investigation and also worked in the Criminal Affairs Division.
She is the only officer in KCG who graduated from the World Maritime University and is the first and only one in Korea who studied both at the World Maritime University in Sweden and the IMO International Maritime Law Institute in Malta.