Lee names former Yonhap chief, ex-prosecutor to senior presidential posts

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• ·President Lee Jae Myung’s office on Sunday announced a new lineup of senior staff in a broad reshuffle, as Lee begins the second year of his five-year term.
• ·The new Cheong Wa Dae staff appointments, which are equivalent to vice ministerial-level posts, are aimed at “speedy implementation” of the Lee administration’s second-year policy goals, Lee’s chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said at a press briefing.
• ·Lee tapped Seong Ghi-hong, the former head of South Korea’s largest news agency Yonhap, as the new senior presidential secretary for public relations and communication, replacing Lee Kyu-youn.
• ·Seong, 57, worked as a journalist for more than 30 years before joining the presidential office.
• ·Kang said Seong “possesses a keen sense of the reporting field as a journalist, as well as the balanced viewpoint and sharp eye required of a news director.” Han Chan-sik, a former prosecutor currently working as an attorney at Kim & Chang, was tapped as the senior presidential secretary for civil affairs.