From the left of the top row, Woo-ho Kim, Deputy Head of Personnel Innovation Office, Hong-taek Yong, Head of R&D Policy Division, Ministry of Science and Technology, Jae-Hyun Lim, Head of Tax Division, Ministry of Strategy and Finance, and Seok-hwan Jeong, Head of Defense Policy Division, Ministry of National Defense. From the bottom of the row, from the left, Cho Kyung-sik, Assistant Secretary for Digital Innovation at the Blue House, Choi Byeong-am, Deputy Director of the Forest Service, Choi Young-joon, Head of the Unification Policy Division of the Ministry of Unification, and Hwang Seong-gyu, a Standing Member of the Metropolitan Area Transportation Committee, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
On the 26th, President Moon Jae-in appointed Kim Woo-ho (58) as Deputy Minister of Personnel Innovation and Choi Young-joon (55) as Deputy Minister of Unification Policy, and replaced 8 vice-ministers. It is a vice minister’s greeting of only three months following the replacement of 10 vice ministers at the end of December last year. The government approval rate for President Moon fell to the lowest level after taking office and is in the midst of a lame duck crisis.
Hong-taek Yong (58), head of the R&D policy office, was appointed as the 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science, ICT, and ICT. 57) Choe Byung-am (55), Deputy Director of the Korea Forest Service, was appointed as the head of the taxation office of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance, as the head of the Military Manpower Administration, Jeong Seok-hwan (60), the head of the policy department of the Ministry of National Defense, and as the head of the Korea Forest Service.
The new Dean Woo-ho Kim, from Jeonbuk, graduated from the Department of German Language and Literature at Seoul National University, and entered public office with 37 times. He has served as the Director of Human Resources Recruitment Bureau of the Ministry of Human Resources Development and the Human Resources Secretary of the Blue House. Vice Minister of Science and Technology Yong Hong-taek, from Gwangju, graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Hanyang University and served as Director of Science and Technology Policy and Information and Communication Industry Policy Officer at the Ministry of Science and Technology with 26 technical examinations. After graduating from the Department of Business Administration at Korea University, the 2nd Vice Minister of Science and Technology Kyung-sik Jo entered public office at 34 times and served as Director of Broadcasting Promotion Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Secretary General of the Korea Communications Commission. Vice Minister of Unification Choi Young-joon graduated from the Department of Public Administration at Yonsei University and served as a Policy Planning Officer and Director of the Inter-Korean Cooperation District Development Planning Division at the Ministry of Unification for 35 times. A key official at the Blue House explained, “All 8 people are single-owners and do not have land in the new city area.”
According to the Gallup Korea announcement, on the 23rd to 25th, as a result of asking about 1001 people aged 18 years or older on the performance of President Moon’s duties, 34% said they were doing well and 59% said they are doing wrong. Each was counted. The positive evaluation fell 3 percentage points from the previous week, and the negative evaluation rose 4 percentage points.
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