[Profile] Kim Hyun-sook, Nominee for Minister of Gender Equality and Family

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] Kim Hyun-sook, the nominee for Minister of Gender Equality and Family, is a tax and pension expert who served as a proportional representative member of the Saenuri Party in the 19th National Assembly and worked as the Senior Secretary for Employment and Welfare under the Park Geun-hye administration.

Kim began her career in politics in 2012 as a proportional representative member after working as a research fellow at the Korea Tax Research Institute and a professor in the Department of Economics at Soongsil University.

She served as a member of the Saenuri Party's Civil Servant Pension System Reform Task Force (TF) and the National Assembly's Special Committee on Civil Servant Pension Reform's National Grand Bargain Organization, playing a leading role in handling the civil servant pension reform, a key reform agenda of the Park Geun-hye administration.

She was the head of the "Happy Women Promotion Team" under the Saenuri Party's National Happiness Promotion Committee. From the Park Geun-hye administration's Presidential Transition Committee, she was selected as a member of the Women and Culture division, designing women's policies.

Since 2017, she has returned to teaching in the Department of Economics at Soongsil University. From the primary campaign period of President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol, she has provided in-depth policy support across economics, society, and welfare. After the presidential election, she served as a policy advisor to President-elect Yoon.

Kim will be in charge of working on the organizational direction following the dissolution of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.

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