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Office Of The President (South Korea)
The Office of the President () assists the President of South Korea. Chief of Staff to the President is the head of the Office of the President and is a ministerial-level official. Cheong Wa Dae or Blue House was often used as a metonym for the Presidential Secretariat because of its location before President Yoon Suk-yeol moved the office and residency of the President out of Blue House in May 2022. The Presidential Secretariat is an important part of the executive branch of the South Korean government. Members Yoon Suk-yeol Administration President Yoon almost halved the size of his secretariat following his campaign promise to give more authority to ministers. Chief Presidential Secretary for Policy as well as advisors to the presidents have been abolished. Senior Presidential Secretary for Political Affairs (정무수석비서관) Senior Presidential Secretary for Civil Society (시민사회수석비서관) Senior Presidential Secretary for Public Relations (� ...
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Government Of South Korea
The Government of South Korea is the union government of the Republic of Korea, created by the Constitution of South Korea as the executive, legislative and judicial authority of the republic. The president acts as the head of state and is the highest figure of executive authority in the country, followed by the prime minister and government ministers in decreasing order. The Executive and Legislative branches operate primarily at the national level, although various ministries in the executive branch also carry out local functions. Local governments are semi-autonomous and contain executive and legislative bodies of their own. The judicial branch operates at both the national and local levels. The South Korean government's structure is determined by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea. This document has been revised several times since its first promulgation in 1948 (for details, see History of South Korea). However, it has retained many broad characteristics; with the ...
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Han Byung-do
Han Byung-do (; 7 December 1967) is a South Korean politician representing Iksan City at the National Assembly and previously served as Senior Secretary to the President Moon Jae-in for Political Affairs. In 2004 Han was elected as member of the National Assembly from Iksan City becoming the youngest member elected in this election at the age of 37. Han convinced President Roh Moo-hyun to accept the honorary doctorate degree in politics from Han's alma mater, Wonkwang University. This is the one of three degrees Roh has from tertiary education - all honorary as Roh never went to college - and the only one from Korean university. Han was previously the president of its student union. In 2016 he lost his election to Cho Bae-sook. Upon beginning of the President Moon Jae-in's presidency, he was appointed as his secretary for political affairs. Later that year, Han was promoted to a senior secretary, a vice-ministerial position. Han resigned the post for the 2020 South Korean l ...
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Kim Hyun-jong
Kim Hyun-jong ( ko, 김현종, Hanja: 金鉉宗, born 27 September 1959 in Seoul) is a former minister for trade under Presidents Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in. From May 2003, the very beginning of the Roh administration, as the deputy minister for trade and later the minister for trade, he was one of the most central figures in Roh administration's trade policy for more than 4 years. In particular, he initiated numerous free trade agreement(FTA) plans or talks with Canada, India (CEPA), Mexico, MERCOSUR, GCC, Singapore, EFTA, ASEAN, and United States. The FTAs with Singapore, EFTA, ASEAN, and USA had been signed before he moved to UN. These 4 blocks and Chile (the first nation with which South Korean signed FTA) compose 25.78% of all South Korean trade (according to data in 2006). Under President Moon, Kim served as his first Trade Minister. He led the re-negotiation of the KORUS FTA. In 2019 he was reshuffled to Office of National Security as its Deputy Director respons ...
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Im Jong-seok
Im Jong-seok (; born 24 April 1966) is a South Korean politician and former Chief of Staff for Moon Jae-in currently serving as Moon's Special Advisor for Foreign Affairs and Special Envoy to UAE. Im served as Moon's chief of staff during the primary and 2017 presidential election. Im previously served as vice/deputy mayor for political/state affairs under Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, a two-term member of the National Assembly, and secretary-general of the Democratic Party of Korea. He was a prominent student activist in the pro-democracy movement during the 1980s. Im was head of the National Council of Student Representatives in 1989 and served three and a half years in prison for facilitating Lim Su-kyung's unauthorized visit to North Korea in violation of the National Security Law. Im supports engagement with North Korea. Personal life Im was born in Jangheung, South Jeolla in 1966.pulsenews.co.kr/view.php?year=2017&no=312950 He is married with one daughter. See also ...
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Park Sukyung
Park Sukyung (; born 1973) is a South Korean professor of mechanical engineering at KAIST with expertise in Biomechanics served as Science and Technology Advisor to President Moon Jae-in from 2020 to 2022. Park is the youngest person appointed by Moon to a vice-ministerial post as well as the youngest senior member of the Office of the President. Park was the first female professor to join the faculty of mechanical engineering at KAIST and the first student to graduate from Seoul Science High School in only two years. Park is a member of the KAIST board of trustees. She was previously a senior researcher at the government-funded Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials and a member of the President's Advisory Council on Science and Technology. Park holds three degrees in mechanical engineering - a bachelor's and master's from KAIST The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) is a national research university located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, ...
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Lee Kong-joo
Lee Kong-joo (; born 1955) is a South Korean emeritus professor of pharmacy at Ewha Womans University previously served as President Moon Jae-in's Advisor for Science and Technology. Lee is one of first generation female scientists who have been active in both pioneering research and representing scientists. From 1994 Lee has been teaching at her alma mater, Ewha Womans University. In 2010 she became the dean of its graduate school. In 2007 she became a member of Korean Academy of Science and Technology. Lee was previously a member of editorial board of Molecular & Cellular Proteomics for five years. Upon return from the United States, Lee started working as a senior researcher at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science, one of science research institutes in Daedeok Innopolis from 1989 to 1994. After realising that there were only several female researchers among 200 researchers in the research cluster, she led the foundation of the Association of Woman Scientist ...
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Mun Mi-ock
Mun Mi-ock (; born 20 December 1968) is a former South Korean research professor at Yonsei University and Ewha Womans University serving as the President of Science and Technology Policy Institute from January 2021. Mun previously served as President Moon Jae-in's first Science and Technology Advisor and his second Vice Minister of Science and ICT - the first woman to assume both posts respectively. Before entering politics and after leaving academia, Mun had led Planning and Policy Division of Center for Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology (WISET) from 2011 and Science Engineering Technology Cooperative (SETCOOP) from 2013 - both policy instruments of the Ministry to support Korean scientists and innovations. Mun was the last person recruited by then-party leader Moon Jae-in for the 2016 general election. Mun received the number 7 on her party's proportional representation list. In 2017 Mun was appointed to the newly created post, an advisor to the president fo ...
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Jung Tae-ho
Jung Tae-ho (;born 23 January 1964) is a South Korean politician representing Gwanak District of Seoul at the National Assembly from 2020 and previously served as a secretary and later a senior secretary to President Moon Jae-in from 2017 to 2019. Early political career During his undergraduate studies, he led his university branch of student-organised group calling for the U.S. to stop providing legitimacy to authoritarian Chun Doo-hwan regime as its deputy head. After spending over two years in jail for this, he was pardoned. However, he later spent another year in jail for organising labour activism movement. Political career Jung first entered politics in 1990 when he was employed as one of secretaries to then-parliamentarian Lee Hae-chan. He continued working for Lee when Lee became the Deputy Mayor of Seoul in 1995. In 1997 he joined transition team of then-President-elect Kim Dae-jung as one of administrators. In 2001 he mapped 150 campaign policy promises of Kim's s ...
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Kim Oe-sook
Kim Oe-sook ( Korean: 김외숙; Hanja: 金外淑; born 10 August 1967) is a South Korean lawyer served as President Moon Jae-in's Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs from 2019 to 2022 and previously served as his first Minister of Government Legislation - the second woman ever to lead the Ministry. After passing the bar exam in 1989 and completing the training at the Judicial Research and Training Institute in 1992, she began and dedicated her career as a lawyer at law firm Busan, which is founded by Moon after former President and then-lawyer Roh Moo-hyun quit a law firm Roh and Moon jointly opened to become a lawmaker. Kim took various roles: the Vice-president of Korean Women Lawyers Association, a member of Busan Regional Labor Relations Commission, a Commissioner of Council of Conciliation at Busan High Court and a member of Busan and Gyeongsangbuk-do Administrative Appeals Commissions. She also taught and led a law clinic at Dong-A University Law Scho ...
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Cho Hyun-ok
Cho Hyun-ok (; born 21 September 1956), also known as Cho Hyun-ock, is a South Korean politician previously served as President Moon Jae-in's first Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs - the first woman to assume such post - and currently serving as his ambassador to Germany from 2020. After working at research institutes and civil societies, Cho joined the office of Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs under then-President Roh Moo-hyun. She later joined Park Won-soon-led Seoul Metropolitan Government as its director of Women and Family Policy Affairs Office. Cho previously worked with Moon during his 2017 presidential campaign as its vice chair of gender equality committee. After serving as his first Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs from 2017 to 2019, Cho was appointed as his second ambassador to Germany in November 2020. Cho holds three degrees in politics - a bachelor and a master's from Ewha Womans University and a ...
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Kim Je-nam
Kim Je-nam (; born 12 June 1963) is a South Korean politician who served as President Moon Jae-in's Senior Presidential Secretary for Civil Society from 2020 to 2021. Kim was the first woman to ever assume such a post. Before she was promoted to senior presidential secretary, Kim worked for Moon as his secretary for climate and the environment despite her previous political career as an opposition party parliamentarian and member. In May 2021 Kim was replaced by Bang Jung-kyun, a professor at Sangji University. Before entering politics, Kim worked for civil societies for environment - most notably Green Korea United. Kim was one of central figures in merging three environmental organisations into Green Korea United in 1994. Kim led this organisation as its first Deputy Secretary General from its foundation to 2007. In 2012 election Kim was placed as the number 5 on Unified Progressive Party's proportional representation list. In less than a half year later, Kim joined other ...
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Cho Kuk
Cho Kuk ( Korean: 조국, born 6 April 1965) is a South Korean jurist and politician. He was the Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs from 2017 to 2019 in the Moon Jae-in Cabinet. On 9 September 2019, President Moon Jae-in appointed Cho as Minister of Justice, replacing the incumbent Park Sang-ki. In 2019, Cho Kuk was involved in a series of controversies, including allegations of illicit business activities and falsification of academic achievements of his daughter. On 14 October, Cho Kuk announced his resignation as Minister of Justice over corruption allegations. Early life and education Cho was born in West District of Busan in 1965, as the eldest son of the ex-Director of Institute of Ungdong, Cho Byun-hyun (died in 2013), and his wife and the current Director of the institute, Park Jung-sook. He attended Gudeok Elementary School in Busan, then moved to Seoul and studied at Daesin Middle School. After he returned to Busan, he finished his secondary ed ...
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