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President Yoon Seok-yeol Appoints New Staff: What You Need to Know

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President Yoon Seok-yeol has appointed former Secretary Jeon Kwang-sam, who left the President’s Office to run in the general election, to replace Hwang Sang-moo, former Senior Secretary for Civil Society, who resigned resigned after naming so-called “terrorist journalist” attack.”

With today’s appointments, President Yoon has completed the reorganization of his staff following the general elections.

It was also pointed out that many of the new staff members were not appointed or failed in the last general election, so they were appointed against public sentiment in the general election.

This was reported by journalist Kim Min-chan.

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The position of senior secretary for civil society in the president’s office has been vacant for nearly two months following former senior secretary Hwang Sang-moo’s remarks on so-called “hoe-knife terrorism.”

President Yoon Seok-yeol chose former secretary Jeon Kwang-sam, who worked in the president’s office until the general election.

[정진석/대통령 비서실장]

″Based on my experience as Secretary of the Office of the President twice, I believe I am the right person to listen and coordinate opinions on the ground so that the diverse voices of civil society can be reflected in the state administration.″

The former senior secretary submitted his resignation letter to run in the Daegu Bukgap Region general elections, but was not nominated by the People Power Party.

And after 5 months he was promoted from secretary to chief and returned.

[전광삼/신임 대통령실 시민사회수석]

″I think it is my duty and role to listen a lot and transmit it as it is, without any addition or subtraction.″

After the crushing defeat of the ruling party in the general elections, an increasing number of people are rehired in the president’s office.

Starting from Presidential Chief of Staff Jeong Jin-seok, who failed to win the sixth term, Hong Cheol-ho, Senior Secretary for Political Affairs, who lost in the Gimpo elections, Lee Won-mo, Secretary for public service discipline, who returned after running for Yongin, and Joo Ki-hwan, special advisor on people’s livelihood, who the president personally took care of when he was excluded from the rotation of proportional representation.

There are a total of 6 people.

Among them, Chief Jeon Kwang-sam and Secretary Lee Won-mo left the president’s office to run in the general election, but returned less than six months later.

The opposition party points out that the president’s poor talent pool has been revealed and that this nomination goes against public sentiment in the general elections.

[김보협/조국혁신당 대변인]

″If the standard for personnel management were pro-Soviet relations, personnel management will become a “false business.” It seems pitiful if even talented people had to be recycled.”

The purpose of the reorganization of the Presidential Office is to reform government affairs after the crushing defeat in the general elections.

Among the returning presidential staffers, it seems that no one is exempt from responsibility for the chaos that has occurred in state affairs over the past two years.

This is Minchan Kim from MBC News.

Video Coverage: Hwang Sang-wook, Go Heon-ju / Video Editing: Ki-beom Cho

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