Born and raised in the Republic of Korea, Ji Eun majored in political science and diplomacy at Yonsei University, Seoul. Ji Eun is a career diplomat and had served for 8 years before joining the MPA program at Princeton. Her job portfolio in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs extensively covered European and Southeast Asian affairs (mostly ASEAN), human rights and social affairs, press relations, and, most recently, North Korean nuclear policy. While she dealt with Southeast Asian affairs, her focus was on exploring cooperation between Korea and other countries' policies in the Indo-Pacific region. During her MPA studies, she hopes to dig more deeply into the geopolitical dynamics in the region, and how regional strategies would interact with each other. In her free time, she enjoys going to musicals, movies, and art exhibitions as well as exploring new cities. She also likes to play tennis, swim, and scuba dive (has a PADI advanced license), and she is currently learning golf, yoga, and pilates.