Coast Guard Public Relations Ambassador Appointment Ceremony... Actor Lee Deok-hwa Promoted to Senior Superintendent After 7 Years

Actor Lee Deok-hwa (72) was promoted and appointed to the rank of Senior Superintendent General after seven years of serving as a Public Relations Ambassador and Honorary Coast Guard for the Korea Coast Guard.

On the 13th, the Korea Coast Guard held a promotion and appointment ceremony for Public Relations Ambassadors and a commissioning ceremony at the Coast Guard's exclusive pier in Jung-gu, Incheon. At the event, Lee, who has been steadily serving as a Coast Guard Public Relations Ambassador since 2017, was promoted from Superintendent to Senior Superintendent General. Lee is the first among the Coast Guard Public Relations Ambassadors to be appointed to the rank of Senior Superintendent General.

The rank of Senior Superintendent General is the next rank after Commissioner General, Deputy Commissioner General, and Commissioner General, and is one rank above Superintendent, which is the rank of a police station chief. In the land police, actor Choi Bul-am (84) was promoted to Commissioner General in 2021, 50 years after being appointed as an honorary police officer.

Kim Jong-wook, Commissioner of the Korea Coast Guard (center), is taking a commemorative photo with actor Lee Deok-hwa and other Korea Coast Guard ambassadors at the Korea Coast Guard exclusive pier in Jung-gu, Incheon on the 13th.
[Photo by Korea Coast Guard]

The Korea Coast Guard also reappointed actors Choi Song-hyun, Baek Sung-hyun, and Yang Jung-won, singer Lim Do-hyung, and the Geoje Boys and Girls Choir, who had previously served as Coast Guard Public Relations Ambassadors. These ambassadors boarded patrol vessels to experience various equipment used in actual crackdowns on illegal foreign fishing vessels and had the opportunity to learn more about the missions of the Coast Guard.

Kim Jong-wook, Commissioner of the Korea Coast Guard, said, "It is especially meaningful to hold the Public Relations Ambassador commissioning ceremony on a patrol vessel that plays a major role on the front lines of the Coast Guard," and added, "Please continue to promote the Korea Coast Guard widely."

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