Jang Je-won "Cheong Han-eun's appointment, there was no consultation or recommendation... Person who did not agree"

Jang Je-won, chief of staff at the president-elect's side, said, "There was no discussion or recommendation" regarding President Moon Jae-in's nomination of Lee Chang-yong, director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in charge of Asia and Pacific affairs, as a candidate for the new governor of the Bank of Korea.

Director Jang met with reporters in front of the Transition Committee in Tongui-dong and said, "When Lee Cheol-hee, senior presidential secretary for political affairs, said, 'How is Lee Chang-yong', (I) said, 'You're a good person,'" he said. No,” he said.

The Blue House said that it had gathered the opinions of the elected Yoon Seok-yeol when appointing Lee Chang-yong as director-general, but he refuted it head-on, saying that it did not go through a consultation or recommendation process with the elected party.

When asked if he had spoken to Chief Lee Cheol-hee, Director Jang answered, "(Relating to the Governor of the Bank of Korea) called 10 minutes before the announcement and said that he was going to announce it, so I laughed and said, 'No, what are you talking about? I said, 'Do whatever you want,'" he said.

He added, "We said something like 'a greeting that we do not recommend or agree with'".

When asked, 'How did President-elect Yoon react to the appointment of the Bank of Korea governor?', he said, "You are smiling." He said, "I am not even a personnel authority. ji," he said.

Director Jang emphasized, "What is the intention of talking (the Blue House has consulted)" and "I cannot agree with the media analyzing it as a gesture of reconciliation."

Director Jang criticized the Blue House again, saying, "It seems only to build a justification for the appointment of audit committee members of the Board of Audit and Inspection. I don't know why."

Regarding the possibility of working-level consultations with Lee in the future, Director Jang said, "The Blue House has publicly rejected the promise to the public ((relocation of the president's office)". “

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When he said, 'The Blue House spoke to the effect that today's personnel announcement was in good faith', Jang said, "It may be in good faith, but it must be good intentions from the standpoint of receiving [it]."