潘外相事務総長立候補顛末記

South Korea joined the United Nations in 1991.
U.N. records show that South Korea had 54 South Korean nationals assigned to its mission six months before Ban has taken office the top U.N. post.
By contrast, the Philippines had 759 nationals in its mission.

But South Korean membership has risen rapidly during Ban's brief tenure, to 66 staff members.
Ban's most important appointment in the past year was that of Kim Won-soo, a former South Korean official who helped run Ban's election campaign for the top U.N. post.
Kim is widely viewed as the second most influential U.N. official, overseeing staff appointments and helping craft Ban's political priorities.

Ban has also appointed his onetime boss, Han Seung-soo, a former South Korean foreign minister and U.N. General Assembly president, to a senior panel on climate change.
Other prominent South Koreans have secured positions in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Department of Information Technology.

A handful of mid-level South Korean nationals recruited from the South Korean Foreign Ministry -- and spared from competing for their jobs -- have been posted in Ban's executive office, press office and department of management.

Some U.N. officials have referred to the South Koreans as Ban's "political commissars" or "embeds," saying that they undermine the U.N. chain of command.
Others said the complaints are driven by envy.

"I think being from South Korea, and people have growing respect for South Korea, that's a great enhancement for the secretary general," said Donald P. Gregg, a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea. "If he brings along talented people who he knows very well, I think that's also a plus."