Yoon Appoints Former Deputy Chief Prosecutor Kim Nam-woo as Director of National Intelligence Service Policy Office (Update)

Former Director Cho Sang-jun, who served as Director of Legal Affairs at the Ministry of Justice and Director of Investigation Command at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, resigns after three days

Namwoo Kim, New Director of Planning and Coordination Office at the National Intelligence Service

[Asia Economy Reporter Baek Kyunghwan] On the 28th, President Yoon Seok-yeol appointed Kim Nam-woo, former Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office (age 53, Judicial Research and Training Institute class 28), as the Director of Planning and Coordination at the National Intelligence Service. This comes just three days after the previous director, Cho Sang-jun, tendered his resignation.

New Director Kim previously served as the Legal Affairs Division Chief at the Ministry of Justice, Head of the Investigation Command Division and Policy Planning Division at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, and Chief of the Criminal Division 1 at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office. Notably, he led the investigation related to the 'failure to return from leave' allegations concerning the son of former Minister of Justice Chu Mi-ae while assigned to the Eastern District Prosecutors' Office starting February 2020, but left the prosecution after the regular personnel reshuffle in August of the same year.

Earlier, Cho, who was considered a close aide to President Yoon, submitted his resignation for personal reasons on the 25th. President Yoon officially dismissed Cho on the 26th.

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