A South Korean expert has been reelected as a member of the U.N. Human Rights Committee monitoring civil and political rights, the foreign ministry said Thursday.

Soh Chang-rok, a professor at the graduate school of international studies at Korea University, will serve another four-year term from 2025-2028 as one of the 18 members on the committee that monitors the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

He has been serving in the position for the 2021-2024 term.

Soh is the first South Korean to have been elected to the committee since the country acceded to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in 1990.

He is known for his yearslong expertise in human rights and currently serves as the head of Human Asia, a Seoul-based nongovernmental organization, and has served as a member of the U.N. Human Rights Council Advisory Committee from 2014 to 2020.

Source: Yonhap News Agency