Yoon picks ex-culture minister as special adviser for culture, sports

▲ This file photo shows Yoo In-chon, new special presidential adviser for culture and sports. (Yonhap)

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Yoon picks ex-culture minister as special adviser for culture, sports

By Lee Haye-ah

SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday named a former culture minister and actor as his special adviser for culture and sports in a reshuffle that also affected six vice-minister level posts, his office said.

Yoo In-chon, a well-known TV and stage actor who served as culture minister during the Lee Myung-bak administration, was named special presidential adviser for culture and sports.

Cho Hong-sun, an official of the Fair Trade Commission, was nominated vice chair of the antitrust regulator, while Ko Kwang-hyo, an official of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, was named chief of the Korea Customs Service.

Kim Yoon-sang, also a finance ministry official, was tapped for chief of the Public Procurement Service, while Lee Hyoung-il, deputy finance minister, was named chief of Statistics Korea.

The reshuffle also saw the nomination of Kim Kyung-ann, chief of a North Jeolla Province chapter of the ruling People Power Party, as head of the Saemangeum Development and Investment Agency, and Kang Hee-up, a standing member of the Metropolitan Transport Commission, as chair of the commission.

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