Seoul: President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday appointed four vice ministerial officials, including the chief of the Saemangeum Development and Investment Agency, his spokesperson said.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Lee named former Rep. Kim Eui-kum as head of the Saemangeum agency, which is overseeing a project to create an economic hub near a seawall on the country's southwest coast, his spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said in a written briefing.
South Korea has been seeking to transform Saemangeum, an area more than four times the size of Manhattan, into an eco-friendly waterfront city. The development plans include high-end industrial, tourism, and agricultural facilities, along with science and research institutes.
In addition to Kim's appointment, Lee also named Choe Dong-seok, a business administration expert, as chief of the Ministry of Personnel Management. Kwon Dae-young, currently the secretary general of the Financial Services Commission, has been appointed as the commission's vice chairman. Furthermore, You Hong-june, a professor emeritus of art history at Myongji University, has been appointed as head of the National Museum of Korea.