Yoon Adds 20 More Presidential Office Secretary-Level Appointments Including Bok Doo-gyu and Wang Yoon-jong (Update)

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is arriving at the 20th Presidential Transition Committee office in Tongui-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 5th. Photo by Transition Committee Press Corps

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hye-min] President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol announced on the 6th the appointments of secretary-level officials for the Presidential Secretariat and the National Security Office's 1st and 2nd Deputy Chiefs' offices. Bok Doo-gyu, former Secretary General of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, was appointed as Personnel Planning Officer, a position that attracted attention, and Wang Yoon-jong, former professor of International Economics at Dongduk Women's University, was appointed as the newly established Economic Security Secretary.

Following the appointments of secretaries for the Economic Chief of Staff Office the previous day, President-elect Yoon appointed 20 secretaries for organizations including the Personnel Planning Office, Public Relations Chief of Staff Office, and Social Affairs Chief of Staff Office on this day.

Bok Doo-gyu, former Secretary General of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, was appointed as Personnel Planning Officer. This position was created by President-elect Yoon by lowering the rank instead of having a Personnel Chief of Staff. Bok has a history of working with President-elect Yoon since their time in the prosecution. Within the Personnel Planning Office, Lee In-ho, standing member of the Personnel Innovation Office's Appeal Review Committee, was appointed as Personnel System Secretary, and Lee Won-mo, former researcher at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, was appointed as Personnel Secretary.

Under the Social Affairs Chief of Staff Office, Park Min-su, Director of Planning and Coordination at the Ministry of Health and Welfare, was appointed as Health and Welfare Secretary. Kim Min-seok, Director of Labor Policy at the Ministry of Employment and Labor, was appointed as Employment and Labor Secretary; Kwon Seong-yeon, Secretary General at Korea National University of Education, as Education Secretary; and Lee Byung-hwa, Climate Change Policy Officer at the Ministry of Environment, as Climate and Environment Secretary.

Despite advocating for a streamlined Presidential Office, the Civic Society Chief of Staff Office was expanded in size. Choi Cheol-gyu, former Policy Advisor to the Minister of Gender Equality and Family, was appointed as National Integration Secretary. Im Heon-jo, Director of the Livelihood Economy Policy Research Institute, was appointed as Civic Communication Secretary; Kim Seong-hoe, editorial writer at Jayoo Ilbo, as Religion and Multicultural Secretary; and Lee Sang-yeop, Director of External Cooperation at Naver, as Digital Communication Secretary.

Under the Public Relations Chief of Staff Office, Kang Hoon, former editorial writer at Chosun Ilbo, was appointed as National Public Relations Secretary. Kim Young-tae, former Vice President of Communications at Coupang, was appointed as National Communication Director.

Appointments were also made for four secretaries under the 1st Deputy Chief of the National Security Office. Lim Sang-beom, former Nuclear Non-Proliferation Diplomatic Planning Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was appointed as Security Strategy Secretary; Lee Moon-hee, former Head of the North Korea Nuclear Diplomacy Planning Team at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiation Headquarters, as Foreign Affairs Secretary; Baek Tae-hyun, Director of Unification Policy at the Ministry of Unification, as Unification Secretary; and Wang Yoon-jong, professor of International Business at Dongduk Women's University and member of the Economic 2 Subcommittee of the Presidential Transition Committee, as Economic Security Secretary.

At the 2nd Deputy Chief's office, Lim Ki-hoon, Deputy Director of Policy Planning at the Ministry of National Defense's Defense Policy Office, was appointed as Defense Secretary; Yoon Oh-jun, Head of Cybersecurity Department at the National Intelligence Service, as Cybersecurity Secretary; and Kwon Young-ho, Deputy Commander of the Army Ground Operations Command, as Director of the National Crisis Management Center.

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