People's Party Appoints Key Officials Including Secretary General Choi Yeon-sook and Supreme Council Member Kim Geun-tae

Ahn Cheol-soo, leader of the People’s Party, is attending the Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly on the 23rd and delivering opening remarks. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jun-yi] The People’s Party has appointed key party officials including the Secretary-General and Supreme Council members. The new Secretary-General is Representative Choi Yeon-sook, the new Supreme Council member is Deputy Spokesperson Kim Geun-tae, and the Chair of the Policy Committee includes Hong Seong-pil, an advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Human Rights Commission.

On the morning of the 23rd, the People’s Party approved the party official appointments at the Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly. Earlier, on the 20th, former Secretary-General Lee Tae-gyu resigned from his positions as Secretary-General and Supreme Council member due to the collapse of the merger with the People Power Party, creating vacancies.

New Secretary-General Choi previously served as President of the Daegu Metropolitan City Hospital Nurses Association under the Korean Nurses Association and entered the 21st National Assembly as a proportional representative, having served as a Supreme Council member of the party.

New Supreme Council member Kim has been active as Chair of the Youth Committee of the Future Alternative Movement, Head of the Seoul branch of the New National University Student Representatives Council, and Vice Principal of the People’s Party Youth Political School, while serving as the party’s Deputy Spokesperson.

New Policy Committee Chair Hong is a former professor at Yonsei University Law School and has served as the Korean member of the APF-ACJ Asia-Pacific Legal Committee and Chair of the UN Human Rights Council’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.

Additionally, Lee Dong-hyun, CFO of Respect Small Money Co., Ltd. and Unst & Company Co., Ltd., was appointed as Vice Chair of the Policy Committee; Yoo Ju-sang, Chair of the Party’s Human Rights Legal Committee, as Deputy Secretary-General; and Baek Byung-gi, former Deputy Secretary-General, as Special Advisor for External Cooperation.

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