President Yoon Appoints Former Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoon In-chon as Cultural Special Envoy

'Announcement of Vice Minister-Level and Presidential Special Advisor Appointments'
Appointments including Statistics Korea Chief Lee Hyung-il and Korea Customs Service Chief Ko Kwang-hyo

President Yoon Suk-yeol appointed former Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chon as Special Advisor for Culture and Sports on the 6th.

Special Advisor Yoo was born in 1951 and graduated from Chung-Ang University with a degree in Theater and Film. He was appointed Minister of Culture at the start of the Lee Myung-bak administration in 2008 and served for about three years until January 2011.

Former Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chon, appointed as Special Advisor for Culture and Sports to the Yoon administration on the 6th. /
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Looking at the additional vice minister-level appointments announced that day, Jo Hong-seon, Investigation Director of the Fair Trade Commission, was nominated as Vice Chairman of the Fair Trade Commission at the political vice minister level. Ko Gwang-hyo was appointed Commissioner of the Korea Customs Service, Kim Yoon-sang as Administrator of the Public Procurement Service, and Lee Hyung-il as Commissioner of Statistics Korea, all from the Ministry of Economy and Finance. Additionally, Kim Kyung-an, former Chairperson of the People Power Party’s Jeonbuk Iksan Gap District Committee, was appointed Administrator of the Saemangeum Development Agency, and Kang Hee-eop, Standing Member of the Metropolitan Wide-area Transportation Committee, was nominated as Chairperson of the Metropolitan Wide-area Transportation Committee.

Meanwhile, some presidential secretariat appointments vacated by the June 29 cabinet reshuffle were made on the 5th. Kang Myung-gu, Senior Administrative Officer of the Presidential Secretariat, was appointed Secretary for National Planning; Kim Jong-moon, Director of the Regulatory Coordination Office at the Office for Government Policy Coordination, was appointed Secretary for National Tasks; and Choi Won-ho, Head of the Korea Aerospace Agency Establishment Promotion Team, was appointed Secretary for Science and Technology. They have already started work at the Yongsan Presidential Office.

Newly appointed Lee Hyung-il, the new Commissioner of the Korea National Statistical Office (from the left), Ko Kwang-hyo, the new Commissioner of the Korea Customs Service, and Kim Yoon-sang, the new Commissioner of the Public Procurement Service on the 6th.
[Photo by the Presidential Office]

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