[Profile] Kim In-cheol, Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs and Minister of Education Nominee

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] Kim Incheol, the nominee for Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs and Minister of Education, is a higher education expert who served as president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies for eight years and as chairman of the Korea Council for University Education.

Since being appointed as a professor in the Department of Public Administration at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in 1988, Kim has held positions such as Director of Planning and Coordination, Dean of Academic Affairs, and President of Cyber Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. He served as president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies from 2014 to 2022.

He served as chairman of the Korea Association of Private University Presidents from 2018 to 2020, and as chairman of the Korea Council for University Education from 2020 until recently. Kim has also held roles such as Audit Commissioner of the Board of Audit and Inspection, Inspection Commissioner of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, director of Seoul Arts Academy, member of the National Education Reform Council, president of the Korean Association for Public Administration, and director of the Korea-America Educational and Cultural Foundation.

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol introduced Kim as "the right person to prepare for the Fourth Industrial Revolution era through reform of the Ministry of Education and innovation in higher education, and to design fair educational opportunities and educational diversity for the growing children and youth generation."

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