[Profile] Jang Sang-yoon, Vice Minister of Education... Former Administrative Official in Quarantine and Health Welfare

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] Jang Sang-yoon, appointed as the Deputy Minister of Education on the 9th, is a former bureaucrat who handled coordination of health and welfare-related agencies and major policy issues at the Office for Government Policy Coordination (OGPC).

Born in 1970, Jang is from Jeonju, Jeonbuk, graduated from Yonsei University with a degree in Public Administration, and entered public service after passing the 36th Administrative Examination in 1992.

He earned a master's degree in Urban Administration from Yonsei University Graduate School in 1999 and a master's degree in Policy Studies from Texas State University in the United States in 2005.

At the OGPC, he served as Director of the Agriculture, Fisheries and Construction Deliberation Division in the Economic Coordination Office, Director of Planning in the Government Operation Office, Welfare Policy Officer, Chief Planning Policy Officer, and Director of the Social Coordination Office.

Since 2020, he has led COVID-19 related practical work at the OGPC and served as the Policy Support Team Leader of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Special Committee at the Presidential Transition Committee.

▲Jeonju, Jeonbuk ▲Yonsei University, Department of Public Administration ▲Office for Government Policy Coordination, Regulatory Coordination Office, Social Regulation Manager ▲Office for Government Policy Coordination, Social Coordination Office, Welfare Policy Officer ▲Office for Government Policy Coordination, Government Operation Office, Chief Planning Policy Officer ▲Office for Government Policy Coordination, Social Coordination Office, Welfare Policy Officer ▲Office for Government Policy Coordination, Social Coordination Office, Director

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