Lee appoints 4 vice ministerial officials

▲ Former Rep. Kim Eui-kum (Yonhap)

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Lee appoints 4 vice ministerial officials

SEOUL, July 20 (Yonhap) -- President Lee Jae Myung on Sunday appointed four vice ministerial officials, including the chief of the Saemangeum Development and Investment Agency, his spokesperson said.

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 -- more than four times the size of Manhattan -- into an eco-friendly waterfront city with high-end industrial, tourism and agricultural facilities, as well as science and research institutes.

Lee also named Choe Dong-seok, a business administration expert, as chief of the Ministry of Personnel Management; Kwon Dae-young, secretary general of the Financial Services Commission, as the commission's vice chairman; and You Hong-june, professor emeritus of art history at Myongji University, as head of the National Museum of Korea.

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