Frank Ahrens, VP of global corporate communications for Hyundai Motor, is slated to move to BGR PR in Washington in January.
Ahrens, a former reporter and editor for the Washington Post, has been posted in Seoul for the past three years for Hyundai.
A rare non-Korean on the company's executive board, he created the carmaker's first English-language corporate media site and worked closely with its government affairs operations in Washington and Brussels while overseeing a PR staff of about a dozen.
BGR PR president Jeff Birnbaum said the firm's clients "will be well served by Frank's experience as a reporter, editor and advocate."
Ahrens spent 18 years at the Post before departing for the PR side at Hyundai in 2010.
Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is founding partner of BGR.
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