2023-11-29 15:00:00
Lee Kwan-seop, senior secretary for government affairs in the Presidential Secretariat, is greeting lawmakers at the general steering committee meeting held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 17th./Newsis
It was announced on the 29th that President Yoon Seok-yeol will reorganize the organization by creating a new position of policy director in the Presidential Office to strengthen the policy coordination function. The President’s Office will be reorganized from the existing system of two heads of the Secretariat and National Security Office to a three-room system with the addition of the Director of Policy. Lee Kwan-seop, the current senior secretary for government affairs planning in the President’s Office, is likely to be the head of the policy office.
An official from the Presidential Office said on this day, “Reflecting President Yoon’s policy of ‘strengthening the people’s livelihood,’ we decided to establish a new director of policy in the Presidential Office.” It has been reported that the Senior Secretary to the Secretary General’s Office for Economic Affairs and the Senior Secretary to the President for Social Affairs will be moved to the Director of Policy. The Office of Senior Secretary to the President for Government Affairs and Planning will be abolished. The Senior Office of Science and Technology, which had been considered for the possibility of being newly established, decided not to establish one this time. The system will be reorganized from 2 offices with 6 senior seats to 3 offices with 5 senior seats. The President’s Office is run by three heads: Chief of Staff Kim Dae-ki, Policy Director Lee Kwan-seop, and National Security Office Director Cho Tae-yong.
The head of policy was in the Blue House under the Moon Jae-in administration, and was created during the second year of the Lee Myung-bak administration.
Chief Lee Kwan-seop, who is likely to be the head of the policy office, is from Daegu and graduated from Kyungbuk High School and Seoul National University’s Department of Business Administration. He passed the 27th administrative examination and began public service at the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (predecessor of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy). During the Lee Myung-bak administration, he served as a senior expert member of the ruling Grand National Party.
He served as First Vice Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy for over two years during the Park Geun-hye administration. He later served as president of Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, but resigned in 2017 while opposing the Moon Jae-in administration’s nuclear phase-out policy. In August of last year, when policy confusion was exposed due to the controversy over the 5-year-old elementary school admission policy and the 52-hour workweek system, he joined the President’s Office as senior secretary for policy planning (currently senior secretary for government affairs planning).
It is reported that President Yoon will soon announce a plan to reorganize the Presidential Office and appoint a replacement for the chief secretary.
Potential candidates include Han Oh-seop, the current head of the Presidential Office’s Government Affairs Situation Center, as senior secretary for political affairs, current spokesperson Lee Do-un as senior secretary for public relations, Hwang Sang-moo, former anchor of KBS News9, as senior secretary for civil society, Park Chun-seop, a member of the Bank of Korea’s Monetary Policy Committee, as senior secretary for economic affairs, and current Vice Minister of Education Jang Sang-yoon as senior secretary for social affairs. do.
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