Appointment of Kang Kyung-sung as 2nd vice minister of MOTIE in Korea

  • KEPCO, astronomical deficit, but slow to restructure
  • Dissatisfied with slow promotion of nuclear policy and appointed new vice minister
  • President Yoon Seok-yeol warns of "drastic personnel measures if we don't meet the new national guidelines"//



The presidential office announced in a press release that it has appointed Kang Kyung-sung (photo), the current secretary for industrial policy at the presidential office, as the second vice minister of Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (MOTIE).

The president's sudden appointment lends weight to the interpretation that it is a hard-line personnel move against Park Il-joon, the second vice minister in charge of energy policy at MOTIE.

The basis for this interpretation can be found in Yoon's recent warning messages to ministry officials in public, where he warned them against apathetic attitude.

A day before his one-year anniversary, Yoon instructed ministers to "take drastic personnel measures if they take an ambiguous stance without adapting to the new national policy," saying, "Ministers should work with more certainty and determination and with confidence."

"We shouldn't penalize the bureaucracy just because the regime has changed, but we should recognize exactly what was wrong with the past government and think about how to change it," Yoon said.

Voices from the ruling Party have been criticizing the MOTIE and KEPCO's self-restructuring efforts which got astronomical deficit.

Kang Kyung-sung, the new vice minister, graduated from Ulsan National University's electrical engineering department and entered the public service in 1995. He is considered to be an industrial expert who has served as head of the petroleum industry, nuclear power, industrial policy and energy industry at the MOTIE.
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  • This article is translated into English by DeepL, and partly edited and summarized by Kimoo Heo in Korea, https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimoo-heo-49395557/

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