Kim Sungyul Appointed as Blue House Economic Security Secretary

President Lee Jae-myeong has appointed Sungyul Kim, Director General for Industrial Growth Policy at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, as the new Economic Security Secretary of the Blue House.

According to Blue House officials on July 19, Secretary Kim began his duties by attending the weekly work meeting led by Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik that day. This comes just one month after his predecessor, Song Ki-ho, was promoted to the position of third Deputy Director of the National Security Office and transferred from the post.

Sungyeol Kim, Director of Industrial Growth Bureau at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. Yonhap News DB

The Economic Security Secretary, working under Deputy Director Song, oversees economic aspects of diplomacy and security, with primary responsibility for international trade and commerce issues, such as U.S. tariff negotiations.

Secretary Kim is a career public official at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy who passed the civil service examination. Born in 1970, he graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Business Administration and earned his master's degree from the same university. He joined the ministry in 1997.

Since then, he has held posts including Director for Trade Legal Affairs, Director for Trade Security Policy, and Commercial Attaché at the Korean Embassy in the United States. He also has experience working at the Blue House’s Office of the Senior Secretary to the President for Economic Affairs during both the Lee Myung-bak and Moon Jae-in administrations.

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