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NEW Ajou University Professor Yong Ki Kim is appointed Vice Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Job Creation

  • 2020-04-03
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2020-02-12

 

Ajou University Professor Yong Ki Kim was appointed Vice Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Job Creation. The Presidential Committee on Job Creation reviews and coordinates policies on creating new jobs and improving the quality of jobs.

Professor Kim (pictured above), who began his term as Vice Chairman on February 11th, previously worked as a journalist at The Dong-A Ilbo newspaper and a senior researcher at Samsung Economic Research Institute after obtaining his doctoral degree from the London School of Economics in the U.K.

When President Jae In Moon was a presidential candidate, Professor Kim assisted him as chair of a think tank on job creation and participated in designing Mr. Moon's campaign pledge of creating 810,000 jobs in the public sector. After the current administration was launched, he served as a member of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning.