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President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol announced the appointment of 19 secretaries in the presidential office.
Among them, a former prosecutor who was disciplined for being involved in a spy manipulation case in the city of Seoul in the past is also controversial.
Correspondent Lee Hyun-young.
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First, the newly established Office for Policy Coordination and Planning was led by Jang Seong-min, who served as the head of the Office for State Affairs at the Blue House, and the elected special adviser for political affairs.
Former Blue House senior administrative officer Han Oh-seop was appointed as the head of the National Affairs Office directly under the Chief of Staff.
All the secretaries of the Chief Economics Office were selected from incumbent heads of departments.
Former Chief Prosecutor Yoon Jae-soon, who was a close aide to the president-elect Yoon during his time as prosecutor-general, was appointed as secretary for general affairs, and Jin-woo Joo, who investigated the blacklist case at the Ministry of Environment at the time of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors'
Yoon-elect Yoon and Lee Si-won, a lawyer who worked at the Daegu High Prosecutors' Office, were appointed as secretary for public service discipline, but there is a controversy over the history of being punished for being involved in the spy manipulation case of Yoo Woo-seong, a Seoul civil servant.
In 2013, this nominee was arrested and charged with violating the National Security Act as a public security prosecutor at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in 2013. .
The Democratic Party criticized it, saying, "It is absurd to say that a person who condoned and sympathized with the manipulation of the NIS, which turned a good citizen into a spy, would straighten out the discipline of public service."