(profile) Experienced bureaucrat tapped for agriculture minister

오석민 / 2022-04-14 15:31:52
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(profile) agriculture minister-nominee
▲ Chung Hwang-keun, former head of the Rural Development Administration and a former presidential secretary for agriculture, speaks to reporters after President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol nominated him as agriculture, food and rural affairs minister during a press conference at the presidential transition committee's office in Seoul on April 14, 2022. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

(profile) agriculture minister-nominee

(profile) Experienced bureaucrat tapped for agriculture minister

SEOUL, April 14 (Yonhap) -- Agricultural Minister nominee Chung Hwang-keun is known for devising major policies on how to advance the agricultural industry and rural villages while spending most of his career at the ministry.

The 61-year-old Chung passed an exam for civil service in 1984 after graduating from Seoul National University and joined the agriculture ministry the following year.

He had served in major positions there, including spokesperson and director for agricultural policy as well as for farming and fishing village policy.

During the previous conservative administration of President Park Geun-hye, Chung was tapped as presidential secretary for agriculture, food and rural affairs and oversaw the country's key policy measures of the field for more than three years until 2016.

As a head of the Rural Development Administration through 2017, Chung focused on ways of modernizing the country's agricultural sector and making sustainable rural villages.

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said Thursday that Chung is "the right person to not only resolve issues facing rural communities but also boost the competitiveness of the agriculture, forestry and livestock industries and develop them into future growth industries."

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