Young-min Yoo (right), the new presidential secretary office, and Shin Hyun-soo, the Blue House Chief Min Jeong-su, enter the Grand Briefing Room of the Blue House on the afternoon of December 31, 2020.
I concluded that it would be right to go to Busan (as President Moon Jae-in recommended) if I would continue to do politics even after I was defeated.
In an interview during the 21st general election in February 2020
In January 2016, five years ago, the new presidential secretary, Yoo Young-min, entered the politics with the recommendation of President Moon Jae-in, who was the representative of the Democratic Party at the time, ahead of the 20th general election. Kim Jong-in, who exercised the right to nominate at the time, saw the possibility of winning the Democratic Party’s Emergency Response Committee and tried to nominate Mr. Yoo to the Incheon Yeonsu-eul strategically.
However, after contemplating, Mr. Yoo decides to run for Haeundae Gap in Busan, which was one of the roughest places. He challenged Busan even though he knew that he would be defeated at the word of President Moon,’What if I could run for Busan rather than Incheon?’ The result was’as expected’ failure.
Even though the Moon Jae-in administration did not achieve his dream of being a member of the National Assembly. The 20th general elections in 2016 and the 21st general elections in 2020 were successively lost. However, he was chosen as the next presidential secretary responsible for closing President Moon’s term. In the political world, it is highly likely that Mr. Yoo will become President Moon’s last secretary.
Yoo Young-min, who was recruited by President Moon five years ago
In July 2017, President Moon Jae-in and then Minister of Science, Technology, Information and Communication Yoo Young-min moved together after finishing the award ceremony at the Blue House. Newsis
It was five years ago that President Moon and Mr. Yoo had a political relationship. On January 15, 2016, President Moon, who was then the leader of the Democratic Party, held a press conference and introduced Director Yoo as the 11th recruiting talent ahead of the general election in his 20s. President Moon introduced Mr. Yoo at the time and emphasized the origin of Busan. He said, “As a competent economic party, the Uri Party will contribute to policy-making the food industry in the future.”
However, Yoo put more weight on running for the metropolitan area than Busan at the time. This is because President Moon declared the Paek Uijong Army and handed over the general election baton to Representative Kim Jong-in, and Kim wanted to strategically nominate Mr. Yoo to Yeonsu-eul, Incheon.
CEO Kim paid attention to the career of Mr. Yoo, who served as the president of the POSCO Management Research Institute, and thought he was the right person to entrust the training course where the headquarters of POSCO Engineering was established. It is said that the party’s own market analysis and public opinion polls made the decision to be a battle worth trying.
Director Yoo received a call from the party about the nomination area, but at the recommendation of one person, he began to deeply worry again. President Moon actively asked for Mr. Yoo to go to Busan, saying it would be nice to run for Busan..
A passport official who was familiar with the nomination process at the time said, “In the party, the importance of Busan is great at each election, but I felt desperately that there was a lack of good people.”President Moon had a strong desire to protect (Busan), Mr. Yoo, who is from Busan and knows IT and the economy well.“I said.
On March 2, 2016, Kim Jong-in (center), the representative of the Democratic Party’s Emergency Response Committee, announced the strategic nomination area for the 20th general election at the National Assembly and poses with Yoo Young-min (second right), the former president of the POSCO Management Research Institute. Reporter Oh Dae-geun
Mr. Yoo interviewed Open Democratic Party spokesman Kim Seong-hoe, who filmed a video of support for Democratic Party candidates before the 21st general election in February last year and uploaded it to the Social Network Service (SNS).
He said, “(At the time of the 20th general election), the day after I contacted President Moon after receiving a strategic nomination notification from the party, I spoke with my wife.”My wife said,’It is not a dori to go to Songdo. Even if you win the election in Incheon, President Moon has recruited you, but how can you bring about that relationship?’“He said.
therefore “I concluded that it would be right to go to Busan if I would continue to do politics even after I was defeated.He decided to follow the decision of President Moon, who recognized his potential even though he knew how to lose the election by running for rough terrain. Mr. Yoo was running for Haeundae Gap in Busan in the 4-15 general election last year, but he failed.
“President Moon, starting to pay attention to me from 2014”
At the time of the 20th general election in March 2016, Busan Haeun Dae-gap and Democratic Party candidate Yoo Young-min volunteered with Democratic Party representative Moon Jae-in at a welfare center in Busan. yunhap news
It seems that President Moon’s attention to Mr. Yoo was based on a book he wrote in 2014. President Moon at the time Director Yoo’s book’Imagination becomes reality’After reading the book, I posted an impression that I read the book deeply on Twitter. “I wish politics had plenty of imagination.”I wrote.
In a media interview, Mr. Yoo said, “At this time, President Moon seems to be indirectly interested in me.” Since President Moon read his book, he has increased his insight and creativity into his future.
Mr. Yoo helped Moon’s entry into the Blue House even before entering the political world and even after entering the political world. During the 2012 presidential election, he worked as an economic policy advisory group at the presidential camp for President Moon. In the 2017 presidential election, five years later, he served as the chairman of the Camp Digital Communication Committee.
On April 8, 2019, President Moon Jae-in entered the’World’s First 5G Commercialization, Korea Begins’ event held at the K-Art Hall in Olympic Park in Songpa-gu, Seoul, with Yoo Young-min (left), Minister of Science, ICT, and ICT, raising hands and greeting Are doing. yunhap news
Although Mr. Yoo was unable to enter the National Assembly, President Moon selected him to enter public office first. In July 2017, Mr. Yoo was inaugurated as the first Minister of Science, Technology and Information to the Moon Jae-in government. President Moon saw Mr. Yoo as the right person to lead the new government’s science policy philosophy of discovering growth engines by proactively responding to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
When Yoo was in office as the Minister of Science and Technology, he made Korea the world’s first 5G commercialization country. In 2026, the size of the 5G market is expected to grow to 1,500 trillion won, and it was pushed with one conviction to preempt it.
Initially, 5G commercialization was aimed at the end of the year in 2019, but Mr. Yoo advanced it by eight months. As a result, it announced the world’s first commercialization of 5G with President Moon in early April 2019. Yoo was also evaluated as leading the expansion of data and artificial intelligence (AI) investment, revitalization of venture investment, introduction of regulatory sandbox, and reorganization of the national technology and development (R&D) system.
Yoo Young-min, the boss of his son, Kun-ho
At the launching ceremony of the pilot operation of an eco-friendly delivery equipment post office held in front of the Gwanghwamun Post Office in Seoul on February 19, 2018, Minister of Science, Technology and Information and Communication Minister Yoo Young-min (right) and Environment Minister Kim Eun-kyung ride an electric car and raise their hands to greet them. yunhap news
Some mention the relationship between the late former President Roh Moo-hyun and Chief Yoo, and mention the relationship between President Moon and Chief Yoo.
Geon-ho, the son of former President Roh, joined LG Electronics before the 2002 presidential election. Mr. Yoo was an executive at LG Electronics at the time, and Mr. Kun Ho was assigned to the IT department under the control of Mr. Yoo. It is known that the former President Roh turned his attention to Mr. Kun-ho when he appreciated his boss, Mr. Yoo.
This story also appeared at the personnel hearing of Mr. Yoo before becoming Minister of Science and Technology in 2017. In the opposition party, Mr. Yoo set the day as a boon to becoming a candidate for the Minister of Science and Technology. Mr. Yoo said, “As a boss at work, I attended the wedding of Mr. Gunho and shared greetings with the former President Roh,” and drew a line to the public speculation that he had a special relationship with former President Roh through Mr. Gunho.
However, Mr. Yoo served as the director of the Korea Software Promotion Agency for two years from 2006, during the Roh Moo-hyun administration. However, as a former corporate executive, it was evaluated for its superior organizational control and management ability. In 2007, KISA, which had been in the lower part of the management evaluation of public institutions, was transformed into the number one public institution in institutional evaluation after one year in office. Mr. Yoo received the best grades in the evaluation of the head of the agency at the time.
Head of Economic Secretary to Lead the Korean New Deal
Roh Young-min (left), the former presidential secretary chief and the new secretary-in-chief Yoo Young-min, are sharing greetings with a bright smile after finishing a briefing on personnel affairs at the Grand Briefing Room at Chunchu Hall at the Blue House on the afternoon of December 31, 2020. Newsis
Mr. Yoo is expected to focus on the recovery of the economy, which was hit by the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) and the Korean New Deal, which President Moon is ambitiously pursuing.
President Roh Young-min, former presidential secretary general, introduced Mr. Yoo, saying, “Deokjang with communication leadership in various fields such as economy, administration, and politics,” and “successfully promoted the Korean version of the New Deal for overcoming Corona 19 and revitalizing people’s livelihood, leading the 4th industrial revolution, etc.” It was evaluated as the best person to command the presidential secretary office in order to promote the national affairs task.”
Born in Busan, Mr. Yoo graduated from Dongnae High School in Busan and the Department of Mathematics at Pusan National University. After serving as vice president of LG CNS, he served as general president of POSCO ICT and senior research fellow at POSCO Management Research Institute.
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