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'''Vitaly Vasilievich Fen''' ({{lang-ru|Виталий Васильевич Фен}}; born c. 1947) is an [[Uzbekistan]]i diplomat who was stationed in [[South Korea]] from 1995 to 2013.

==Career==
Fen began to play a role in relations between South Korea and Uzbekistan as early as 1992, soon after the [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]], when he set up the first of twelve meetings he would ultimately organise between the [[president of South Korea]] and the [[president of Uzbekistan]].<ref name="Trend20130820">{{cite news|url=http://en.trend.az/regions/casia/uzbekistan/2180952.html|title=Uzbek ambassador completes diplomatic mission in South Korea|work=[[Trend News Agency]]|date=2013-08-20|accessdate=2013-10-07}}</ref> He first came to South Korea in 1995 to take up a new position as ''[[chargé d'affaires]]'' of the Uzbekistani embassy in [[Seoul]], and was promoted to ambassador in 1999. By 2007, with the departure of [[El Salvador]]ean ambassador [[Alfredo Ungo]], Fen became the [[dean of the diplomatic corps]] in South Korea.<ref name="KoreaTimes20071118">{{cite news|url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2009/05/176_13953.html|last=Kim|first=Se-jeong|title=Dean of Diplomat Corps Talks About His New Duty|work=[[The Korea Times]]|date=2007-11-18|accessdate=2013-10-07}}</ref> He departed from South Korea in August 2013, leaving the position of dean of the diplomatic corps to [[Harun Ismail]] of [[Brunei]].<ref name="Trend20130820"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/10/176_143862.html|last=Kim|first=Se-jeong|title=New dean of diplomatic corps promises outreach efforts|work=The Korea Times|date=2013-10-07|accessdate=2013-10-07}}</ref>

==Personal life==
Fen is of [[Korean diaspora|Korean descent]]; his grandparents were [[Koryo-saram|Korean immigrants to the Soviet Union]], and settled in [[Vladivostok]] before being [[deportation of Koreans in the Soviet Union|deported in 1937]] to the [[Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic]], where Fen himself was born in the capital [[Tashkent]]. He is married to Lyudmila, who is also of Korean descent. He began studying the [[Korean language]] in 1988, and made his first trip to South Korea in 1989 to attend the [[World Ethnic Korean Festival]].<ref name="KoreaTimes20071118"/>

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