From the left, Kim Gi-pyo, Anti-Corruption Secretary, Lee Hyung-il, Economic Policy Secretary, Kim Jung-won, Digital Innovation Secretary  <Photo by Cheong Wa Dae>

From the left, Kim Gi-pyo, Anti-Corruption Secretary, Lee Hyung-il, Economic Policy Secretary, Kim Jung-won, Digital Innovation Secretary

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] The Blue House announced new appointments for secretaries on the 31st.


President Moon Jae-in appointed Kim Ki-pyo, representative lawyer of the law firm Hyeonjin, as the Anti-Corruption Secretary; Lee Hyung-il, Deputy Minister of Planning and Finance, as the Economic Policy Secretary; and Kim Jeong-won, Director of the Information and Communication Policy Office at the Ministry of Science and ICT, as the Digital Innovation Secretary.


Born in 1972, the new Anti-Corruption Secretary Kim graduated from Gyeonggi Bucheon High School and Seoul National University College of Law, majoring in Public Law. He passed the 40th bar exam and served as a prosecutor at the Suncheon branch of the Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office, prosecutor at the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office, research prosecutor at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, and chief prosecutor of the Special 1 Division at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.


The new Economic Policy Secretary Lee, born in 1971, graduated from Daegu Gyeongsang High School and Seoul National University with a degree in Economics, and earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Texas A&M University in the United States. He passed the 36th national civil service exam and served as Director of the Comprehensive Policy Division, Director of the Economic Analysis Division, Director of the Financial Market Division at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Senior Administrative Officer at the Economic Policy Secretary's Office of the Presidential Secretariat, and Director of the Economic Policy Bureau at the Ministry of Economy and Finance.



Born in 1967, the new Digital Innovation Secretary Kim graduated from Seoul Dongbuk High School, majored in Political Science at Seoul National University, earned a master's degree in Public Administration from Seoul National University, and a master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University in the United States. He passed the 36th national civil service exam and served as Director of the User Policy Division and Director of the New Media Policy Division at the Korea Communications Commission, Deputy Director of the Intelligent Information Society Promotion Team at the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, Director of the Information and Communication Policy Office, Director of the Internet Convergence Policy Office, and Director of the Basic and Fundamental Research Policy Office at the Ministry of Science and ICT.


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