Seoul: President Lee Jae Myung nominated new education and gender equality ministers as well as the heads of the nation's corporate watchdog and financial regulator Wednesday, the presidential office said.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Choi Kyo-jin, superintendent of the Sejong City Office of Education, was named education minister, presidential chief of staff Kang Hoon-sik said in a briefing. Won Min-kyong, a non-standing commissioner of the National Human Rights Commission, was tapped to lead the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.
Lee also nominated Ju Biung-ghi, an economics professor at Seoul National University, as chair of the Fair Trade Commission, and Lee Eog-weon, former first vice finance minister, to head the Financial Services Commission. The nominees must undergo parliamentary confirmation hearings before they can be formally appointed, though parliamentary approval is not required for them to take office.