Kim Oe-sook

Kim Oe-sook
Kim Oe-sook
김외숙
Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs
	In office; 29 May 2019 – 9 May 2022
President	Moon Jae-in
Preceded by	Cho Hyun-ok
Succeeded by	position abolished
Minister of Government Legislation
	In office; 12 June 2017 – 29 May 2019
President	Moon Jae-in
Prime Minister	Lee Nak-yeon
Succeeded by	Kim Hyeong-yeon
Personal details
Born	10 August 1967 (age 57); Pohang, South Korea
Political party	Democratic Party of Korea
Alma mater	Seoul National University (LLB); University of Virginia (LLM)

Kim Oe-sook (Korean: 김외숙; Hanja: 金外淑; born 10 August 1967) is a South Korean lawyer served as President Moon Jae-in's Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs from 2019 to 2022 and previously served as his first Minister of Government Legislation - the second woman ever to lead the Ministry.^[1]

After passing the bar exam in 1989 and completing the training at the Judicial Research and Training Institute in 1992, she began and dedicated her career as a lawyer at law firm Busan,^[2] which is founded by Moon after former President and then-lawyer Roh Moo-hyun quit a law firm Roh and Moon jointly opened to become a lawmaker.^[3]

Kim took various roles: the Vice-president of Korean Women Lawyers Association, a member of Busan Regional Labor Relations Commission, a Commissioner of Council of Conciliation at Busan High Court and a member of Busan and Gyeongsangbuk-do Administrative Appeals Commissions.^[4] She also taught and led a law clinic at Dong-A University Law School as an adjunct professor.^[2]

Kim is one of few senior officials of Office of the President Moon Jae-in to keep their post despite offering their resignation in midst of Moon's secretariat reshuffles in August 2020.^[5]

She holds two degrees in law - a bachelor from Seoul National University and a master's from University of Virginia Law School.

References

^ "Moon replaces National Tax Service chief".
^ ^a ^b "Minister Kim Oe-sook's history".
^ "Moon replaces three vice-ministerial level officials, as show of determination to speed up administration's reform drive".
^ "국민의 눈높이로 소통하는 법제처의 수장" [Minister Kim for engaging with citizens] (in Korean).
^ 임, 형섭 (2020-08-13). "靑 "수석급 이상 인사 일단락"…노영민·김외숙 사표 반려(종합)". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-08-13.

[1] "Moon replaces National Tax Service chief".

[:0-2] "Minister Kim Oe-sook's history".

[3] "Moon replaces three vice-ministerial level officials, as show of determination to speed up administration's reform drive".

[4] "국민의 눈높이로 소통하는 법제처의 수장" [Minister Kim for engaging with citizens] (in Korean).

[5] 임, 형섭 (2020-08-13). "靑 "수석급 이상 인사 일단락"…노영민·김외숙 사표 반려(종합)". Yonhap News Agency (in Korean). Retrieved 2020-08-13.

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