On the 20th, President Moon Jae-in appointed President Eui-yong Eui-yong (from left) for foreign affairs and security, as well as Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, as well as Rep. Hwang Hee of the Democratic Party and Minister of SMEs, and Kwon Chil-seung of the Democratic Party.
On the 20th, President Moon Jae-in reorganized the three ministries, including appointing President Eui-yong Eui-yong (75), Special Advisor for Foreign Affairs and Security as a candidate for the Minister of Foreign Affairs. President Moon recalled the former Blue House National Security Officer Eui-yong Eui-yong back to the cabinet, while the Roh Moo-hyun government’s Blue House executives Hwang Hee (54) and Kwon Chil-seung (56), together with Democratic Party lawmakers, were candidates for the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Minister of Small and Medium Business Ventures. Nominated as. It is interpreted as an attempt to secure stability and increase solidarity by strengthening the parental system in the fifth year in power. However, it is pointed out that the successive appointment of ruling party lawmakers, such as Minister of Public Administration and Security Jeon Jeon-cheol, who have a strong tendency to’friendship’ shows the weakness of the talent pool. Chung Man-ho, chief of public communication, announced the nominations of the three ministerial candidates at the Blue House Chunchu-gwan on that day. Chief Jung cited “diplomacy, expertise and insight, understanding and insight into policy” (Eui-yong Jeong), “policy planning power and ability to communicate interests” (Hwang Hee), “contributing to promoting win-win cooperation with SMEs” (Kwon Chil-seung). . A senior official at the Blue House explained, “I looked for a person who could create results by keeping pace with the end of the term.” In other words, it means that President Moon’s philosophy of state affairs was faithfully followed and people were chosen to match their hands and feet. Candidate Jung, who was recruited to the Moon Jae-in Camp ahead of the 2017 presidential election, has served as the head of the Blue House Foreign Affairs and Security Office for two years and two months since the inauguration of the government, working with Seo Hoon, then head of the National Intelligence Service, to establish a peace process on the Korean Peninsula. In line with the inauguration of the U.S. administration, Joe Biden was reconfirmed as a person who will continue the three axes of the ROK-US alliance, North Korea-US relations, and inter-Korean dialogue. In the case of Candidate Hwang-hee, who is called “86 youngest,” he served as an administrator of the participatory government, and served as vice president of the general affairs headquarters of Moon Jae-in camp during the 2017 presidential election. He is also a key member of the’Owls’ meeting, which is called the meeting of the family members. Candidate Kwon is also a member of the’Owls Association’, who served as an administrator of the participatory government after re-election of the Democratic Party. President Moon’s keynote to moderate his aides began to stand out last month when Democratic Party lawmakers Jeon Jeon-cheol and Park Beom-gye were successively appointed as Minister of Public Administration and Security and Minister of Justice. It is a determination to block power leaks at the end of the term as much as possible and increase control of state affairs in the face of important political events such as the Seoul and Busan mayoral by-election in April. However, this reorganization also has a side that has repeatedly confirmed the’limitation of the talent pool’ that has been pointed out over and over again. During the past four years, there has been a repeating trend of re-employing personnel used by the participatory government by raising their’levels’ without discovering talented and novel talents while running the state administration. At the beginning of the government’s inauguration, neither the plan to open the door to other political parties for’coordination’ nor the promise to fill 30% of the cabinet with women in the end was not kept. By Lee Wan, staff reporter, Seo Young-ji, [email protected]