Hwang Kyo-ahn and Kim Jong-in as General Election Committee Chairs... Shin Dong-ho and Kim Ye-ryeong as Election Committee Spokespersons

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] Hwang Kyo-ahn will serve as the leader of the United Future Party, with Kim Jong-in appointed as the overall election committee chairman. Shin Dong-ho, former MBC announcer director who was excluded from the Future Korea Party proportional representation list, and Kim Ye-ryeong, former Gyeonggi Broadcasting reporter known for asking critical questions to President Moon Jae-in, will join the election committee as spokespersons.

The United Future Party announced on the 31st that it had prepared this election committee composition plan.

Leader Hwang and Chairman Kim will jointly serve as overall election committee chairmen, while floor leader Shim Jae-cheol and professors Park Hyung-joon and Shin Se-don will serve as co-chairmen. Former lawmaker Choi Myung-gil will be the secretary general for the overall committee chairman, lawyer Hwang Jeong-geun and former Seoul Bar Association secretary general Kim Hyun-sung will serve as legal special advisors to the overall chairman, former lawmakers Park Jong-hee and Lee Hee-gyu will be political special advisors, Jung Yeon-tae, president of the Korea SNS Industry Promotion Agency, will be media special advisor, and former Blue House public relations planning secretary Cheon Young-sik will be the press special advisor.

Kim Jong-in, overall election committee chairman, was appointed as chairman of the Emergency Economic Measures Committee to respond to the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), with co-chairman Shin Se-don appointed as vice chairman. Additionally, Kwak Soo-jong, former senior researcher at Samsung Economic Research Institute (finance, macroeconomics, employment), Yeom Myung-bae, former professor at Chungnam National University (budget, education, healthcare), Jang Young-chul, former director at the Ministry of Strategy and Finance (information, industry, management), and Kim Jong-dae, former chairman of the National Health Insurance Service (welfare, energy, agriculture) will each serve as heads of their respective subcommittees.

Lawmakers Lee Jin-bok and Park Wan-soo will jointly serve as heads of the overall election headquarters, while Song Eon-seok, candidate for Gimcheon City in North Gyeongsang Province, and Park Kyung-eun, former head of the Innovation Integration Promotion Committee preparatory group, will serve as deputy heads of the election headquarters.

Spokespersons for the election committee include Kim Eun-hye, candidate for Seongnam Bundang-gap in Gyeonggi Province; Kim Geun-sik, candidate for Songpa-byeong in Seoul; Kim Cheol-geun, candidate for Gangseo-byeong in Seoul; Bae Hyun-jin, candidate for Songpa-eul in Seoul; Yoon Hee-suk, candidate for Seocho-gap in Seoul; Yoon Hee-seok, former presidential secretariat administrator; Shin Dong-ho, former MBC announcer director; Kim Ye-ryeong, former political chief at Gyeonggi Broadcasting; Choi Dae-hyun, chief at Pen & Mike; Lee Jong-cheol, former spokesperson for the Bareunmirae Party; and Baek Kyung-hoon, co-representative of Blueprint, among others.

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