Yoon Appoints Presidential Office Staff Before Impeachment Vote... Chae Myeongseong as Legal Secretary

Secretary Chae, Possible Joining of Yoon's Legal Team
Former President Park Geun-hye's Impeachment Trial Legal Representatives

President Yoon Suk-yeol carried out a promotion of presidential secretaries at the Blue House before the National Assembly passed the impeachment motion.

According to the presidential office on the 17th, President Yoon promoted Chae Myeong-seong, a senior administrative officer at the Civil Affairs Office, to the new legal secretary following the resignation of former legal secretary Han Jeong-hwa amid the emergency martial law situation.

Additionally, Jeong Ho-yoon, a senior administrative officer at the Personnel Secretary's Office, was promoted to the position of Secretary for Civil Society 2. The position had been vacant since last month when former secretary Jang Soon-chil was appointed as the second deputy chief of staff.

Secretary Chae, appointed as the legal secretary, served as both a member of the impeachment trial defense team and the criminal trial defense team during former President Park Geun-hye's state affairs manipulation scandal.

There have been recent reports suggesting that Secretary Chae might join President Yoon's impeachment trial defense team. If Secretary Chae joins the defense team, he must resign from his position as legal secretary.

Secretary Jeong has been working at the presidential office since the beginning of the Yoon administration. He ran as a preliminary candidate for Busan Saha-eul in the general election last April but was not nominated and returned to the presidential office.

President Yoon Suk-yeol is delivering a national address at the Yongsan Presidential Office on the 12th. Photo by Yonhap News

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