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In the top row, from left, newly appointed Second Vice Minister for Strategy and Finance Kim Yun-sang, new Vice Minister for Gender Equality and Family Shin Young-sook and new Minister for Land, Infrastructure and Transport Jin Hyun-hwan. Shown in the bottom row from left are new Vice Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Song Myeong-dal, new Director of Public Procurement Ki-geun Lim and new Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister Son Young-taek. Provided by the Office of the President
☞Subscribe to Hankyoreh newsletter H:730. Enter “Hankyoreh h730” in the search bar. On the 27th, President Yoon Seok-yeol made appointments at the vice ministerial level, including the vice ministers of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries. Half of the deputy ministers replaced that day were candidates for the parliamentary elections and only remained in their positions for about six months. Ten days ago, President Yoon replaced then-Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Bang-gyu Bang, who planned to run in the general election, in just three months. There is criticism that parliamentary elections take precedence over the conduct of state affairs. On that day, President Yoon appointed Kim Yun-sang, 54, head of the Public Procurement Service, as second vice minister of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, and Shin Young-sook, 55, former director of the National Public Service Talent Development Institute, as vice minister of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, Jin Hyun-hwan (58), head of the Housing and Land Office of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, as first female vice minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, and Song Myeong-dal as vice minister of the ministry for oceans and fisheries. (57) The Head of the Office of Marine Policy of the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries has been appointed. Son Young-taek, 51, head of the Secretariat’s civil affairs office, was appointed chief of staff to the prime minister, at the level of vice minister, and Ki-geun Lim, 55, a financial management official in the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, was appointed Director of the Public Procurement Service. The staffing on this day can be summarized as “internal promotion to general election selection”. Former Vice Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Park Seong-hoon, who was replaced that day, plans to run for Haeundae Gap in Busan, former First Vice Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Kim Oh-jin is running for Dalseo Gap in Daegu, and the Former Second Vice Minister for Strategy and Finance Kim Wan-seop is seeking to run in Wonju, Gangwon-do. Park Sung-geun, the prime minister’s former chief of staff and former prosecutor, plans to run for office in Yeongdo, Busan. According to Article 53(1) of the Elections Act, public officials must resign 90 days before the general election (January 11 next year). Among them, former Vice Minister Park Seong-hoon and former Vice Minister Kim Oh-jin served as presidential secretaries for about a year since President Yoon’s inauguration, and were appointed vice ministers at the end of June in line with President Yoon’s policy of civil service reform within the community. Since they had already expressed their intention to run in the parliamentary elections, the “6-month position of Vice Minister” was expected. For this reason, it is difficult to escape criticism that he used the position of vice minister to add the experience of a “former vice minister” to the list of “Yoon Shim” staff candidates for the general election. Chae Jin-won, a professor at Kyung Hee University’s Public Governance Research Institute, told Hankyoreh: “Using ministerial or vice-ministerial positions as a means to install one’s own people in the National Assembly should be avoided.” There were There were also rumors that Second Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Jang Mi-ran, a former weightlifter who was appointed last June, would run for the general election, but she reportedly firmly rejected this. Due to the selection process for the parliamentary elections, there were also a number of transfers among employees of the President’s Office. Deputy Speaker Choi Ji-hyeon has been nominated to replace Human Resources Secretary Lee Won-mo in the general election. Minister Lee belongs to the “Yoon Seok-yeol line” of the prosecutor’s office and has been responsible for human resources since he took office. Secretary Lee’s wife caused controversy last year when she accompanied President Yoon as a civilian to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit in Madrid, Spain, his first foreign visit. Legal Secretary Joo Jin-woo, who is preparing to run for Busan Sooyoung, will also resign as early as this week. Minister Joo was one of the first participants in President Yoon’s presidential campaign and was responsible for the negative reactions. International Legal Secretary Lee Young-sang has been appointed as his successor, and the Office of the Legal Secretary and the Office of the International Legal Secretary are expected to be merged into one. Furthermore, when Kang Myeong-gu, Minister of State Affairs and Planning, resigned to run for office in Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Kim Dong-jo, Minister of State Affairs, was horizontally transferred as his successor, and Choi Jin-woong , CEO of Message Factory, who served as secretary of voice recordings during Park Geun-hye’s administration, was chosen as Message’s new minister of foreign affairs. Reporter Kim Mina mina@hani.co.kr
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