Bak Hui-jung

Pak Hŭijung (; 1364–?) was a scholar-official of the Joseon Dynasty Korea in 14th and 15th centuries.

He was also diplomat and ambassador, representing Joseon Dynasty interests in a diplomatic mission to the Ashikaga shogunate in Japan.

1423 mission to Japan King Sejong dispatched a diplomatic mission to Japan in 1423. This embassy to court of Ashikaga Yoshinori was led by Pak Hŭijung.

A diplomatic mission conventionally consisted of three primary figures—the main envoy, the vice-envoy, and a document official. Also included were one or more official writers or recorders who created a detailed account of the mission. In this instance, the vice-envoy was Yi Ye, who would return to Japan in 1432 as ambassador. The Joseon diplomats were more narrowly focused in negotiating protocols for Joseon-Japan diplomatic relations. and in Nihon ōdai ichiran (published in Paris in 1834). Joseon foreign relations and diplomacy are explicitly referenced in the 1834 work.