On the afternoon of May 11, 2017, right after President Moon Jae-in took office, after having a luncheon with the Blue House staff, he is taking a walk around the precincts of the Blue House with coffee. From the left, at the time, Chief Min Jeong-guk Cho, Director Kwon Hyeok-ki, Director Chun-chu, President Moon, General Secretary Lee Jeong-do, Chief Personnel Officer Cho Hyun-ok, former head of the Democratic Party’s Seondae Committee schedule general team leader Yoon Young-chan, chief public communication chief Lim Jong-seok. Reporter Kim Seong-ryong
On the 25th, a meeting of the Economic and Humanities and Social Research Society was held to recommend a new president of the Korea Development Institute (KDI). The presidential candidate compressed by three times included Hong Jang-pyo, former head of the Blue House economy. As expected inside and outside KDI, if Hong is selected as the next president, he will serve as the general manager of national economic policy establishment and economic development for the next three years.
Jang-pyo Hong led by Soju-seong, the leading KDI director
Jeong Hae-gu is the chairman of the National Research Institute
Opposition Party “People in charge of incompetence policy also moderate”
Hong Jang-pyo, former chief of economics, included in the triple candidate for the next KDI president
Former Hong is a person who advocated the’income-led growth’ policy, the representative economic policy of the Moon Jae-in administration. He also served as the chairman of the special committee for income-led growth under the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning. On the 5th, the former chairman of the Policy Planning Committee, Jeong Hae-gu, who was his superior, became the chairman of the Economic and Humanities Society Research Association. The research group serves to support government-funded research institutes in the field of economics and humanities. Therefore, the board of directors of the Economic and Humanities and Social Research Society is involved in the appointment of the KDI president. As a result, the chairman (Jeong Hae-gu), who worked together with the Policy Planning Committee, selects the affiliated chairman (Jang-pyo Hong).
If former chief Hong is appointed as KDI director through such a process, the controversy over’parachuting personnel’ from the Blue House is expected to intensify.
In the meeting where President Moon Jae-in took office in May 2017, he presided over the first Blue House Chief and Aides Meeting. Is already spreading to the capillaries of the Moon Jae-in government.
Key staff of the 1st Blue House successful’reemployment’
文 “If the Blue House is headed, the meeting of chief and advisors is the backbone”
Among the three offices led by the minister-level chief, the National Security Office has the highest reemployment rate. Eui-yong Eui-yong, the first head of the National Security Office, has been serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs since the 8th of last month after serving as a Special Assistant to the President’s Foreign Affairs and Security. Both the first deputy chief (Lee Sang-cheol) and the second deputy chief (Kwan-pyo Nam), who are the vice-ministers under the chief executive officer, were also re-adjusted. Former Deputy General Lee Sang-cheol, a former soldier, took office in December 2019 as president of the War Memorial Association, which operates the War Memorial in Yongsan, Seoul. Former deputy general manager Nam Kwan-pyo, a diplomat, returned to Japan after serving as an ambassador to Japan until last January. It means that all of the heads of the first phase of the Anbosil were re-employed.
Re-employed for the first period of the National Security Office
In the case of the policy office, Jang Ha-seong, the first chief of staff, was inaugurated as the Chinese ambassador in April 2019 and is working. Former job chief Ban Jang-sik under the subsidiary was inaugurated as president of the Korea Mint Corporation on the 8th of last month, and former economic chief Hong Jang-pyo is a candidate for KDI president. Kim Soo-hyun, who drew a sketch of the current government’s real estate policy, was promoted to the policy office and was called the “royal chief,” but was replaced in June 2019, after 7 months of appointment. Former science and technology adviser Moon Mi-ok became the president of the Institute for Science and Technology Policy (STEPI) on January 19th after serving as the first vice minister of the Ministry of Science, ICT, and ICT.
On September 6, 2018, a signing ceremony was held for the Income-Driven Growth Special Committee under the Presidential Policy Planning Committee. From the left, at the time, Jang-pyo Hong, Chairman of the Special Committee for Income-Driven Growth, Hae-gu Jeong, Chairman of the Policy Planning Committee, Young-pyo Hong, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Democratic Party, Dong-yeon Kim and Minister of Strategy and Finance, and the Blue House Policy Officer Jang Ha-seong applaud. Reporter Choi Jeong-dong
Former economic adviser Kim Hyeon-cheol is the only one who has never been remediated among the senior level or higher under the policy office. Former Aide Kim said, “People in their 50s and 60s should not go to the mountains to say they have nothing to do in Korea or write harsh comments on social media. They should go to ASEAN and India” and then resigned in January 2019. Now he has returned as a professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at Seoul National University. Although not the first Blue House, former chief executive Yoon Jong-won, who was the second head of the economy, was appointed president of the IBK Industrial Bank in January of last year and drew strong opposition from the union.
The staff under the first secretary’s chief Lim Jong-seok suffered a relatively bad situation. Jeon Byung-hun, a former member of the 3rd line of lawmakers, left the Blue House after being investigated for bribery in November 2017. Cho Kook, former Chief of Justice Min Jeong, was appointed as the Minister of Justice in September 2019, but various suspicions raised during the personnel hearing process led to an investigation by the prosecution, and he resigned after 35 days and returned as a professor at the Graduate School of Law at Seoul National University. He and his wife, Professor Kyung-Shim Chung, are still being tried. Former Social Innovation Chief Ha Seung-chang applied for nomination to the Democratic Party of Seoul in the 4-15 general election last year, but was not even nominated as the area was tied up as a strategic area.
On the other hand, Yoon Young-chan, former chief of national communication, entered the National Assembly with a gold badge in Joongwon, Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. Former head of HR Cho Hyun-ok took office as the German ambassador in November last year and walked a relatively smooth path among the members of the secretary’s office. However, just before the appointment of the ambassador, it became known that it was recently known that it became a third house by purchasing two officetels in Gangnam, Seoul, and controversy.
Special Reporter Moon Jung-in inaugurated as the Chairman of Sejong Research
Like the former Chairman of the Policy Planning Committee, Jeong Hae-gu, a person directly under the president has also gained a seat. Former Unification Diplomacy and Security Special Adviser Moon Jung-in took office on the 12th of last month as Chairman of the Sejong Institute. The Sejong Institute was founded in the process of a fundraising campaign to help the bereaved families of diplomats who died in the 1983 bombing of Aungsan in Burma (Myanmar). The need for specialized research institutes to accelerate peaceful unification was raised, and in July the following year, a research institute in the form of a foundation was launched.
As the Blue House staff moved to public institutions or places where the government’s breath was strong, criticism emerged from the opposition. People’s Power Spokesman Yoon Hee-seok said, “The Moon Jae-in regime repeatedly rewrites personnel whose incompetence, not their ability, has been verified. How would it be?” he said.
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