Senior Reporter Seong Han-yong’s Politics After the End 364
The Blue House secretary should be able to change from time to time
The Blue House staff will be reorganized.
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President Moon Jae-in has fallen into an embarrassing situation due to the wave of the Blue House Chief Civil Engineer. Chief Min Jung expressed his appreciation, the President rejected it, expressed his appreciation again, rejected it again, expressed his gratitude but continued to work, went on vacation without bending his gratitude, and there will be a statement of position when returning from vacation. , Etc. There is no mind. I have been a reporter for the political department for a long time, but I haven’t seen many cases in which an article about one of the chief secretaries of the president came out in such detail. Shin Hyun-soo, Min Jeong-suk, was born in 1958 and is 63 years old. After graduating from Yeouido High School in Seoul and the Department of Law at Seoul National University, I passed the bar exam and became a prosecutor. He served as the chief of the information and communication department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office and the head of the drug department of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office. I made a relationship with President Moon Jae-in while serving as an appraisal secretary for the Blue House in the Roh Moo-hyun administration. The Moon Jae-in administration served as the head of the Planning and Coordination Office of the National Intelligence Service. On December 31, last year, he became the fourth chief civil servant of President Moon Jae-in after Kim Jong-ho, who stepped down after taking responsibility for the Chu Mi-ae and Yoon Seok-yeol incident. Shin Hyun-soo has a pretty good reputation for Min Jeong. They have excellent work capabilities and a reasonable and humble personality. It is said that President Moon Jae-in also liked Shin Hyun-soo, head of Min Jeong. Shin Hyun-soo, chief civil servant, was raised several times in Haapyeong, chief civil servant after the resignation of his fatherland chief civil servant. It must have been because President Moon Jae-in’s trust was that deep. On December 31 of last year, Secretary Noh Young-min resigned and announced the greetings of the new Blue House Secretary General and Chief Min Jung. I looked for how Shin Hyun-soo introduced Min Jeong-suk.
Shin Hyun-soo, the former head of the Planning and Coordination Office of the National Intelligence Service, has been appointed as the new head of civil jeong. Shin Hyun-soo, the new Chief Civil Service Officer, is a legal officer who has served as the chief of the National Intelligence Service’s keynote office, the secretary of the participatory government’s civil affairs office, the chief of the drug section of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, and the legal affairs officer of the UN Representative Department. Based on a wealth of legal career, he has a sense of balance, a gentle personality, a reform mindset, and a driving force. In this December, the National Assembly dealt with bills for reform of power institutions, such as the Airlift Act, the National Police Agency Act, and the National Intelligence Service Act, laying the foundation for the reform of power institutions. In the new year, it is necessary to prepare unhurried follow-up measures for the reform of power institutions, such as the launch of the airlift, the establishment of the national investigation headquarters, the implementation of the autonomous police system, and the transfer of antiaircraft investigation rights according to the revision of the NIS Act. Shin Hyun-soo, the new chief civil service officer, shares a firm philosophy on judicial reform by working in the Civil Affairs Office of the Participating Government with the President, and based on the experience of leading the reform work of the NIS after the inauguration of the Moon Jae-in administration, checks and balances among power agencies and the people It is expected that the legal affairs and prosecution reforms and reforms of power institutions will be achieved stably.
Although it is the remarks of Secretary General Roh Young-min, if you look closely at the expression, you can feel President Moon Jae-in’s deep trust and affection for the new Chief Min Jeong. In this greeting, there were many people who saw that the secretary office of Yoo Young-min and Shin Hyun-soo, the chief of Min Jeong, would be the last secretary office of President Moon Jae-in and chief civil servant. President Moon Jae-in, who greeted him, probably thought so. It doesn’t seem like a normal thing when Min Jung said that he would quit after a month and a half.
President Roh Young-min greets former Minister of Science, Technology, Information and Communication at the briefing room of the Blue House Chunchu Hall on the afternoon of December 31 last year. yunhap news
Why does Shin Hyun-soo, Min Jeong-soo, want to quit? What is going on in the Moon Jae-in administration right now surrounding the Blue House, chief civil servant? How will this situation end? No, how is President Moon Jae-in right to deal with this matter? Let’s start with a general theory about the Min Jeong-suk. Min Jeong is an abbreviation for the President’s Senior Secretary of Civil Affairs. “It is a key position in the presidential secretary’s office to understand public opinion and public sentiment trends, to assist in public office and social discipline-related work, to assist in legal matters, and to handle civil complaints.” “We are in charge of managing relatives of the President and verifying personnel of high-ranking public officials, and we have a civil affairs secretary, an appraisal secretary, a public service secretary, and a legal secretary.” This explanation for Mr. Min Jung was not made by me. In 2011, President Moon Jae-in wrote a footnote describing the senior citizen of the Blue House during the days of President Roh Moo-hyun. After President Moon Jae-in became president, he changed the assessing secretary to an anti-corruption secretary. Shall we take a look at the history of Chief Min Jeong? During the days of President Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, there was a senior civilian and a senior assessor at the Blue House. President Chun Doo-hwan’s heads of Min Jeong were Hak-bong Lee and Yong-gap Kim, and the heads of Sajeong were Heo Sam-soo, Jeong Gwan-yong, Kim Jong-gun, and Lee Yang-woo. President Roh Tae-woo initially had only the chief civil servant, and later separated the chief civilian and the chief judge. President Roh Tae-woo’s heads of Min Jeong were Han Young-seok, Jeong Gu-young, Kim Young-il, Lee Sang-yeon, and An Gyo-deok, and the chief appraisal were Kim Young-il and Kim Yoo-hoo. During the days of Chun Doo-hwan and Roh Tae-woo, the most important task of Min Jeong was to convey public sentiment to the President’as is’. In his memoirs the following day, former Congressman Kim Yong-gap, who served as President Chun Doo-hwan’s chief civil servant, summarized his mission as “to deliver the voice of the people as it is through the eyes and ears of the president.” He insisted that he eliminated the’Dad News’ with his’direct words’ when he was the senior Min Jeong. The chief executives of President Kim Young-sam were Kim Young-soo and Moon Jong-soo. President Kim Dae-jung abolished the civil affairs chief and established a civil affairs secretary directly under the head of the secretary’s office. However, in June 1999, during his tenure of office, he resurrected Chief Min Jeong. I wrote this in my autobiography:
The Blue House Civil Jeongseon Office was newly established. It has accepted the recommendations of local and civic groups to strengthen the function of collecting public opinion. Hanshin University professor Kim Seong-jae was appointed as the chief secretary of Min Jeong-suk. I asked Senior Kim Min Jeong. “It should be a place to go inside the people and listen to the voices of the people and discuss them.”
It can be seen that President Kim Dae-jung also recognized that the most important task of Min Jeong-suk was to’listen to the people’. Kim Sung-jae, Min Jeong-suk, was from Jaya. After serving as the chief civil servant, he served as the head of policy planning at the Blue House and the minister of culture and tourism. Currently, I am the executive director of the Kim Dae-jung Peace Center. I asked the situation at the time.
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“Up to the Kim Young-sam administration, the chief civil servant was omnipresent. The Kim Dae-jung administration eliminated the civil administration chief and established a civil administration secretary and a legal secretary. As problems such as the clothes lobby incident arose, the civil servant was rebuilt. Min Jeong’s duties were twofold. First, look at the public sentiment. Minjung calls it’Civil Affairs’ in English. Second, it is to check the appraisal and power agencies. He was in charge of the National Intelligence Service, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Audit Office, the National Tax Service, and even a security officer. The secretaries of the civil administration chief office were civil administration secretaries, legal secretaries, civil society secretaries, and civil affairs secretaries. Secretary Kim Joong-gwon appointed a lawyer to the civil affairs secretary, but when he told the president, he tried to appoint Moon Jae-in as the civil affairs secretary. Attorney Moon Jae-in refused, so I appointed Kim Joo-won. In the past, it was because of the combined work of Senior Min Jeong and Senior Appraisal, Min Jeong had a lot of work. A huge amount of reports came up every morning. I remember that there were particularly many reports of the NIS and the prosecution.”
President Kim Dae-jung has appointed former prosecutors to the head of the civilian government after Kim Seong-jae. These are Gwangok Shin, Hakjae Kim, and Jaeshin Lee. President Roh Moo-hyun’s chief civil servants were Moon Jae-in-Park Jeong-gyu-Moon Jae-in-Jeon Hae-cheol-Lee Ho-cheol. The fact that President Moon Jae-in’s name has been entered twice is not my mistake. President Moon Jae-in served as chief civil servant twice. It runs from February 2003 to February 2004, and from January 2005 to May 2006. President Lee Myung-bak’s heads of Min Jeong were Lee Jong-chan, Jeong Dong-ki, Kwon Jae-jin, and Jung Jin-young, while President Park Geun-hye’s heads of Min Jeong were Kwak Sang-do, Hong Gyeong-sik, Kim Young-han, Woo Byeong-woo, Choi Jae-kyung, and Jo Dae-hwan. President Moon Jae-in’s Chief Min Jeong leads to the Fatherland, Jowon Kim, Jongho Kim, and Hyunsoo Shin. Now, shall we take a simple quiz? Who has served twice as the civil jeong chief among the previous chief civil servants? As I said earlier, this is President Moon Jae-in. So, who has been in the highest public office after serving as a senior civil servant? It is also President Moon Jae-in. While some of the chief civil servants became ministers or prosecutors general, no one became president or prime minister. President Moon Jae-in has the experience of assisting the president as chief civil servant, and also has experience of serving as chief civil servant. Therefore, no one knows much better than President Moon Jae-in. President Moon Jae-in documented in detail what happened when he was appointed chief civil servant in 2011. I will introduce only the important parts.
“At that time, the first task of the senior citizen’s office was to create a blue house that does not reign. In the participatory government, it was expressed in terms of’breaking of authority. The symbol of the reigning Blue House in the past was the Civil Jeongseon’s Room. So, when the people’s government was inaugurated, they completely abolished the civil administration’s chief office. Later, he decided that it would not work, so he revived it, but aimed to become a civilian senior room that does not reign. At the same time, Kim Sung-jae, a professor at Hanshin University, from the democratic movement camp was appointed as the head of the Min Jeong. At that time, I was asked by Kim Seong-jae, chief executive officer of Min Jeong, to take over as civil affairs secretary. Since he is a non-legal lawyer, the civil affairs secretary is in charge of the legal profession, but a non-prosecutor’s former human rights attorney decided that it was desirable. But at that time, I judged that what I was doing was more important than that, so I decided. As the government of the people moved to the middle, the need to manage and control the prosecutors was also reduced, or they reverted to the old system of appointing former senior prosecutors as chief civil servants. Even civil affairs secretaries were appointed as incumbent prosecutors. Therefore, it was necessary to revive the early spirit of the people’s government, which once even abolished the Civil Affairs Chamber. “It is people who are apt to forget their beliefs when they are in power. The idea of elected was to appoint a non-prosecutor who was unable to take control of the prosecutor’s office, although he thought that it was absolutely necessary for the legal profession because of the contents of the civil affairs chief office. Furthermore, by appointing a person like me as chief civil servant, it was intended to make it clear that the president was not willing to take control of the prosecution. It was difficult to keep his body in mind as he understood the will of the elect. Chief Min Jeong decided to consider it an extension of his legal activities as it was based on legal affairs. I just closed my eyes for a year or two, thought,’I’m dead,’ and thought naively, thinking that I could return to my place after working.” “80% of the civil affairs senior office’s work was the work of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office. So, the chief and civil administration secretary said that it was desirable to have been from the prosecution. In particular, he emphasized that if the chief is not from the prosecution, the civil administration secretary must be from the prosecution.” “I didn’t follow their advice. This is because the role of the senior civil servant’s office was set differently. I thought that if communication with the prosecution was needed, I could do it myself or have an appraisal secretary. In particular, the civil administration secretary had to be able to serve as the military base for all secretaries except for the general secretary. In that respect, there was no one like Lee Ho-cheol. In fact, during the period of the participatory government, he was credited with maintaining the moral tension of the presidential secretary in its own way. Other secretaries were also made up of lawyers who could share the will of the reforms that President Roh and the participatory government intends to do. A former judge Park Bum-gye, who had a clear opinion of the prosecution reform and studied a lot, was appointed as the second secretary for civil affairs. He strongly promoted’deprosecution of the Ministry of Justice’.”
Justice Minister Park Beom-gye challenged the 2004 National Assembly elections after serving as President Roh Moo-hyun’s Civil Affairs Secretary and Legal Secretary, but failed. Shin Hyun-soo, Min Jeong-suk, was appointed as the Blue House Officer in 2004, after Minister Park Bum-gye left the Blue House secretary. President Moon Jae-in had a relationship with the two as chief-secretary, but both Park Bum-gye and Shin Hyun-soo did not work together at the Blue House. In 2004, the two men, who had different positions as secretaries of the Blue House, clashed head-to-head 17 years later over the prosecution personnel as the Minister of Justice and the Chief Civil Service. Would they have known this fate? I wouldn’t have known it. Now, shall we summarize the core of this issue? What is the reason why Shin Hyun-soo, head of Min Jeong-soo, expressed his appreciation? It was on February 7th that the Ministry of Justice announced the personnel of the four prosecutors. It was stated that Lee Jeong-soo, Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office, was appointed as the Prosecutor’s Office of the Ministry of Justice, Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office, Shim Jae-cheol, the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office, Chuncheon District Prosecutors’ Office Cho Joong-tae as the Chief of the Great Sword Planning and Coordination Department, and Kim Ji-yong, the Deputy Chief of the Seoul High Prosecutor’s Office. Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, Lee Seong-yoon, who was interested, was retained. There was a bulging sound among the prosecutors, but there was no loud noise. However, after the Lunar New Year holiday, on February 16, it was announced that the Minister of Justice and Chief Min Jeong expressed their appreciation due to a conflict between the Minister of Justice and Chief Min Jeong as a prosecutor’s greeting. An official at the Blue House said that day, “we cannot confirm matters related to personnel affairs.” But the wave did not sink. In particular, the situation became more complicated as it was reported as if there was a disagreement between Chief Civil Service and the civil administration secretary regarding the contents of the prosecution’s personnel. The next day, a senior Blue House official appeared in front of reporters, thinking that it would be impossible. We exchanged questions and answers about these topics.
-Why did Senior Min Jeong express his love? = There was a disagreement in the process of coordinating the Ministry of Justice while greeting the four prosecutors. Senior Min Jung expressed his gratitude several times. Each time the president held back. That state continues. Min Jeong-suk never missed a meeting. I also attended the pending meeting this morning. There is no change in the problem of taking off. Reports that there was a disagreement between Min Jeong-suk and the civil administration secretary is completely untrue. -You said you held back your resignation, now? =Keep it. I can’t look inside, and I haven’t skipped all meetings yesterday or today. I can’t tell you what’s inside, but it’s only the fact that there was a disagreement on personnel and there was an expression of gratitude. The internal disagreement within the Blue House is not true. -Who got the approval of the four inspector-level personnel? Did the civil administration chief receive it or did the civil administration secretary receive it? =I will not tell you that the procedure or process has gone through papers and documents have gone, but the proposal was made by the Minister of Justice without the end of the coordination. -Do you admit that there were disagreements in greeting? =The direction of personnel viewed by Chief Min Jeong may be different from that of the legal affairs and the prosecution. Chief Min Jeong tried to mediate, and it was announced during the process, and Chief Min Jeong expressed his appreciation. -Is it related to the arrest warrant of Minister Baek Woon-gyu? =Not related at all. The president has never said anything about him. It is reported as if it were a start, but it is not at all true. -There are disagreements between the Senior Civil Affairs Office and the Ministry of Justice. Did the President reapply even though he knew the conflict process? =I won’t tell you that. It is not appropriate to inform the entire Blue House decision-making process. -Is it said that the greeting was greeted while the greeting was not coordinated? =The Ministry of Justice is raising the proposal of the Ministry of Justice, and the chief civil servant would have intended to be more coordinated. This is to the effect that the announcement was made in a state of disagreement. -Is it passing after all? =It wasn’t passing, but it was out of tune. It is an unreasonable interpretation to see that it has been skipped. -If an uncoordinated proposal has been raised and the President has made an announcement at home, shouldn’t this greeting be regarded as the presidential intention? =The process of coordination is up to the senior civil servant. Please don’t associate the president. -It was said that there was no conflict between the chief civil service officer and the civil administration secretary, but the working-level consultation is made between the prosecutor’s office and the civil administration secretary. If the Ministry of Justice pushed the civil affairs secretary in the same position as the Chief Civil servant, it means that Minister Park Bum-gye pushed the opinion of the Ministry of Justice? = Minister Park Beom-gye proceeded with a procedure to fulfill his claim. There was a presidential home.
Is it complicated? Anyway, a high-ranking official at the Blue House said, “There was a conflict between the Minister of Justice and the Chief Civil Service over the personnel of the prosecution, and the Minister of Justice gave his appreciation for the uncoordinated personnel plan with the approval of the President.” . This explanation by a senior Blue House official amplified the suspicions surrounding the appreciation of Chief Min Jeong. He is also because the relationship between the President and Chief Civil Engineers, the President and the Minister of Justice, and the Minister of Justice and Chief Civil Engineers does not make sense in common sense. Afterwards, the media reported that “the chief civil servant requested the president to nominate a special prosecutor and was rejected”, “the president tried to accept the president’s appreciation for civil affairs”, “the Justice Minister Park Beom-gye announced his greetings without officially receiving the president’s approval.” Reports are pouring, such as, “Senior Min Jung requested an inspection by the Minister of Justice.” The Blue House has not responded to such reports. The same is true for the Dong-A-Democratic Party, which is difficult to enter. Party leaders such as Nak-Yeon Lee and Tae-nyeon Kim are quiet about this situation. Supreme Commissioner Shin Dong-geun briefly stated at the Supreme Council on the 19th, “Conflicts and disagreements cannot be avoided, but it is not desirable that the conflict is not managed and publicly disclosed to the media in this manner.” However, there are many people who are simmering in personal contact with Democratic Party lawmakers. Congressman Jung Jin said this.
“It is a mistake to appoint a former prosecutor as a senior civilian. No matter how much President Moon Jae-in trusts Shin Hyun-soo, there is a side that gave a false message to the public and prosecutors saying that the president had resigned by appointing him as the chief civil servant. Until the end, he shouldn’t have hired a former prosecutor. It is a big mistake for the president to go into the rumors over the issue of a secretary from the prosecution.”
It is. It is nothing but the secretary of the Blue House Secretary’s Office, the chief civil servant, or the president’s secretary. It is completely different from the Minister of State Council. It does not even go through a National Assembly personnel hearing. The secretary should not be in his position. It is a big mistake in itself for a secretary to press the president over the issue of his own move. The president must be able to change secretaries from time to time. As a result, Shin Hyun-soo, Min Jeong-suk, is in a fight with President Moon Jae-in, not Park Bum-gye. It cannot be. I think that the background of this incident was the age-old conflict between political power and prosecution power. It was a confrontation between the power of the prosecutors who did not want to let go of their direct investigative power until the end and the power of the political power that tried to control such power with personnel rights. Shin Hyun-soo, chief executive officer of Min Jeong, failed while attempting to mediate between political and prosecution powers. In a way, it is an extension of the motherland crisis in 2019 and the Chu Miae-Yun Seok-yeol situation in 2020. Shin Hyun-soo, chief civil servant, gave his first greeting to the public on December 31 of last year as chief civil servant.
“I am Shin Hyun-soo, the newly appointed Chief Min Jeong. I came to take on the job in difficult times. There are many things that are not enough, but I will do my best to do my best as far as I can. thank you very much.”
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Shin Hyun-soo, head of Min Jeong would have done his best. However, President Moon Jae-in’s will has not been accurately understood, and he is now pressing on the President over his own situation. If so, you have to step back. President Moon Jae-in should also free him without having any regrets for Shin Hyun-soo, head of Min Jeong. President Moon Jae-in’s term of office is until May 9, 2022. There is still a lot left. Why don’t we take this opportunity to reorganize the Blue House staff, including the chief of secretary and policy, as well as the head of Min Jeong? Is it too drastic? President Moon Jae-in is said to be very generous to the Blue House secretary. He thinks, “If I, as President, can do well, what will happen to the Blue House staff?” This is a wrong idea. The president must be determined. Sometimes it has to be cruel. You have to sacrifice the cattle for the great. This is because he is the President of the Republic of Korea and not the President of the Blue House. I look forward to the decision of President Moon Jae-in. Senior Reporter Seong Han-yong [email protected]