Jeongmu Committee Adopts Hearing Report on Candidate Kang Jeong-ae for Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs

On the 21st, the National Assembly's Political Affairs Committee adopted the personnel hearing report for Kang Jeong-ae, the nominee for Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, at a plenary meeting.

On the same day, the Political Affairs Committee held a personnel hearing for nominee Kang. Issues were raised mainly by opposition party members regarding past controversies over self-plagiarism in her thesis and the application for a 50-year term mortgage loan. However, lawmakers from both ruling and opposition parties agreed that there were no significant flaws preventing Kang from performing her duties as Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs.

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Kang, a professor in the Department of Business Administration at Sookmyung Women's University, served as a member of the Presidential Regulatory Reform Committee and the National Economic Advisory Council during the Lee Myung-bak administration. Under the Park Geun-hye administration, she chaired the Personnel Innovation Office's self-evaluation committee. From 2015 to 2019, she participated as a member of the Veterans Fund Management Deliberation Committee.

In the personnel hearing request statement, President Yoon Suk-yeol stated that Kang was "highly regarded for her capabilities as an innovative administrator" and "recognized domestically and internationally as an expert in personnel and organizational fields."

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