President Moon Jae-in appointed Kim Young-sik, former Blue House legal secretary, as the new chief of civil affairs at the Blue House on the 17th. It has been 27 days since Kim Jin-guk, former chief of civil affairs, resigned due to the controversy over his son’s job application.
Kim graduated from Songwon High School in Gwangju and the Department of Public Administration at Yonsei University and passed the bar exam (40 times). Afterwards, he served as the chief judge in the Gwangju District Court, the Seoul Southern District Court, the Seoul Administrative Court, the Seoul High Court, and then in the Gwangju District Court and the Incheon District Court.
From May 2019 to April last year, he served as the legal secretary in the Office of the Chief Civil Affairs Office of the Blue House.
Park Soo-hyeon, senior presidential secretary for public communication, said, “The new chief Kim has a high understanding of the political philosophy and has excellent work and communication skills. do,” he said.
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