Yoon In-chon Appointed Presidential Cultural Special Advisor... Expected to Announce Tomorrow

It was reported on the 5th that President Yoon Suk-yeol plans to appoint former Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chon as a Special Presidential Advisor for Culture.

A presidential office official revealed the appointment of Yoo as a special advisor to a media outlet, stating, "Former Minister Yoo has played various advisory roles related to cultural and artistic policies."

Former Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chon / Photo by Sports Today DB

Former Minister Yoo graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Chung-Ang University and its graduate school, and has worked as a theater actor and director.

He was appointed Minister of Culture at the start of the Lee Myung-bak administration and served for about three years until January 2011. During his tenure as Minister of Culture, Kim Dae-gi, the current Chief Presidential Secretary, served as the second vice minister.

The presidential office is reportedly planning to announce the appointments of the presidential special advisor for culture and other vice minister-level positions as early as the 6th.

Lee Hyung-il, Deputy Minister of Planning and Coordination at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, has been nominated as the new Commissioner of Statistics Korea, and Kim Yoon-sang, Director of Fiscal Management at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, has been nominated as the head of the Public Procurement Service.

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