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NORTHERN ASIA-PACIFIC DIVISION

Organized 1919 as Far Eastern Division
Renamed Asia-Pacific Division 1995
Territory divided, and renamed 1997; reorganized 2013; reorganized 2019

Territory: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Republic of Korea, and Taiwan; comprising the Japan, and Korean Union Conferences; the Taiwan Conference; and the Mongolia Mission.

Editor's Note: Credentialed Employees are not being listed in the 2023 Yearbook for divisions, unions, conferences, missions/fields, regions, or field stations.

Statistics (June 30, 2022): Churches, 858; membership, 285,915; population, 229,250,000 (online statistics).

Telecommunications:

Telephone: 82 (31) 910-1500.

Fax: 82 (31) 945-4412.

E-mail: show.

Website: http://www.nsdadventist.org.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nsdadventist.org.

Media/Streaming: https://www.youtube.com/user/nsdadventist.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/nsdadventist.

Address: 67-20 Beonttwigi-gil; Paju-si, Gyeonggi-do 10909; Korea.

Administration:

President, Yo Han Kim.

Secretary, Hiroshi Yamaji; Associate Secretaries, Hyun Min Kim, Sun Hwan Kim.

Treasurer, TaeSeung Kim; Undertreasurer, Dong Jin Lyu.

Field Secretary, Steven Chung Feng Wu.

Assistants to the President:

General Affairs, Ho Young Choi.

Taiwan Affairs, Steven Cheng Feng Wu.

Executive Committee:

Yo Han Kim, Chair; Hiroshi Yamaji, Secretary; Jonas Arrais, Raquel Arrais, Seong Jun Byun, Chong Geol Cho, Tony Chou, Ho Young Choi, Suk Hee Han, Joseph Hui-Ting Huang, Yungi Huh, I Jin Im, Yutaka Inada, Shigeru Ito, Jae Song Jeon, Soon Gi Kang, Ginger Ketting-Weller, Geun Soo Kim, Hyun Min Kim, Kwon Kim, Nak Hyung Kim, Si Young Kim, Sun Hwan Kim, Jacob Ko, Jian-Ming Lai, Jairyong Lee, Sang Gun Lee, Dong Jin Lyu, Kodai Matsushita, Norie Niizuma, Beom Seok Oh, In Woung Park, Ho Geun Song, Tom Sun, Yukiko Takeda, Joel D. Tompkins, Terry Tsui, Mark Webster, Chu-Mei Wu, Chung Feng Wu, Steven Chung Feng Wu, Jae Sung Yoon, Chang Jong You.

Departments:

Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, and Ministerial Association (and Evangelism), Jonas Arrais; Ministerial Spouses Association, Raquel Arrais.

Children's Ministries, Family Ministries, and Women's Ministries, Raquel Arrais.

Communication, Seong Jun Byun; Associate, Yong Hun Kim.

Education, Richard Sabuin.

Health Ministries, Jacob Ko.

Planned Giving and Trust Services, Joel D. Tompkins.

Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, Sun Hwan Kim.

Publishing Ministries, and Sabbath School and Personal Ministries, Kwon Kim.

Stewardship Ministries, Nak Hyung Kim; Associate, Steven Chung Feng Wu.

Youth Ministries, Ho Young Choi.

Other Ministries and Services:

1000 Missionary Movement, AMiCUS, Music Ministries, and Public Campus Ministries, Ho Young Choi.

Adventist Church Membership Software, Adventist Volunteer Service, and Vivid Faith, Hyun Min Kim; Assistant for Adventist Volunteer Service, Hyung Kyung Lee.

Adventist Health Care Association (AHCA), Adventist Possibility Ministries, and His Hands Mission Movement, Jacob Ko.

Adventist Mission, and Pioneer Mission Movement, Sun Hwan Kim.

Adventist Risk Management, Retirement, and Property Management, Dong Jin Lyu.

Adventist Television Network, Adventist World Magazine, Adventist World Radio, Hope Channel, and News and Views, Seong Jun Byun.

ASI, PMM, Mission to the Cities, Sun Hwan Kim.

Auditing Service, Joel D. Tompkins; See additional listing under General Conference Services.

Bible Correspondence School, and Literature Evangelism, Kwon Kim.

Digital Evangelism, and Media Center, Yong Hun Kim.

Hope Channel China (Chinese Hope TV), Joel D. Tompkins.

Information Technology Service, Paul Kim.

International Service Employees (ISE), Joel D. Tompkins.

North Korea Mission, Beom Seok Oh.

NSD Geoscience Research Institute, Chong Geol Choi.

Bible Research Center, and Spirit of Prophecy, Jonas Arrais.

Agencies:

ADRA NSD, Joel D. Tomkins.

ADRA Asia Regional Office (Tri-division serving the Northern Asia-Pacific, Southern Asia, and Southern Asia-Pacific Divisions). Le Chateau Mansion, No. 801; 55 Ekamai 12th, Sukhumvit 63 Road; Klongtan, Wattana, Bangkok 10110; Thailand. Telephone: 66 (2) 391-4768. Fax: 66 (2) 381-7128. Regional Director, Mark Anthony Webster (show). Program Director, Brendon Irvine (show). Finance Director, Ronald Sandoval Maitre (show).

NSD Taiwan Office:

Taipei Branch Office. 1F, No. 2, Alley 5, Lane 410, Section 2, Ba-De Road; Taipei 105, Taiwan; Republic of China. Telephone: 886 (2) 2752-9290. Field Secretary, Steven Chung Feng Wu.

System Codes: EntityID: 10344; OrgMastID: AR1111; AdmFieldID: NSD.
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