Professor Chinsung Chung
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Emeritus Professor, Seoul National University and member, UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Korea
Professor Chinsung Chung is a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. She is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology at Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea (South Korea). From 2008 to 2013 Professor Chung was an elected member of the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee. In 2005 she established the Korea Center for United Nations Human Rights Policy and has been its President since 2014. In 2013 Professor Chung was awarded the Republic of Korea Human Rights Award.