President Lee Jae-myung Reshuffles Presidential Staff: Han Chan-sik Named Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs, Seong Gihong for Public Relations

[Anchor]

President Lee Jae-myung appointed three new senior presidential secretaries and two deputy directors of the National Security Office today (June 21). Han Chan-sik, a lawyer and former prosecutor, has been named Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs, while Seong Gihong, former CEO of Yonhap News, has been appointed Senior Secretary for Public Relations and Communication.

We begin with a report on the appointments by reporter Jung Yoon-sik.

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The Lee Jae-myung administration has once again appointed a former prosecutor as the Senior Presidential Secretary for Civil Affairs.

Han Chan-sik, a lawyer at Kim & Chang who has been named to the post, was born in Seoul in 1968 and is a graduate of the 21st Judicial Research and Training Institute.

After becoming a prosecutor in 1992, he served as Chief Prosecutor of the Suwon District Prosecutors' Office and the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office.

[Kang Hoon-sik / Chief of Staff to the President: Senior Secretary Han is a legal expert who has built a balanced perspective on the strictness of law enforcement and human rights sensitivity through his roles as Director of the Human Rights Bureau at the Ministry of Justice and as a leader in frontline prosecutors' offices.]

While serving as Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office in 2019, he led the investigation into the "Ministry of Environment Blacklist" allegations targeting the Moon Jae-in administration, which resulted in the indictment of former Environment Minister Kim Eun-kyung and others.

He was not promoted to High Prosecutor thereafter and left the prosecution service after Yoon Suk-yeol, his junior at the Judicial Research and Training Institute, was appointed Prosecutor General.

The new Senior Secretary for Public Relations and Communication comes from a media background.

Seong Gihong, former CEO of Yonhap News, was born in Gyeongnam in 1968. He began his career as a reporter at Yonhap News in 1992 and served as political editor and news director.

The presidential office stated that Seong, a journalist with 30 years of experience, possesses both the instincts of a field reporter and the sense of balance and judgment required of a news executive.

Kim Gyeong-ja, the new Senior Secretary for Social Affairs, is a pharmacist and labor activist.

She began her path in the labor movement in 1995 as the union leader at Inha Hospital and served as the Senior Vice Chair of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) for three years starting in 2017.

Kang Geon-jak, a retired three-star general and member of the Future Defense Strategy Committee, was appointed as the First Deputy Director of the National Security Office. Song Ki-ho, the current Secretary for Economic Security at the National Security Office who previously served as the Chief of the Situation Room under the Lee Jae-myung administration, was promoted to Third Deputy Director.

Reported by Jung Yoon-sik | Video by Yoon Hyung | Video Editing by Kim Jin-won | Graphics by Choi Jae-young
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