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South Korean lawyer
Kim Oe-sook
김외숙
Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs
In office
29 May 2019 – 9 May 2022
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Preceded byCho Hyun-ok
Succeeded byposition abolished
Minister of Government Legislation
In office
12 June 2017 – 29 May 2019
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Prime MinisterLee Nak-yeon
Succeeded byKim Hyeong-yeon
Personal details
Born (1967-08-10) 10 August 1967 (age 57)
Pohang, South Korea
Political partyDemocratic Party of Korea
Alma materSeoul National University (LLB)
University of Virginia (LLM)
In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.

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.

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, 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.

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. She also taught and led a law clinic at Dong-A University Law School as an adjunct professor.

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.

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

References

  1. "Moon replaces National Tax Service chief".
  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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