President Park Geun-hye named a former ruling lawmaker as her senior secretary for political affairs, an official said Friday.
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Hyun Ki-hwan, who served as a lawmaker of Park’s ruling Saenuri Party, replaced Cho Yoon-sun, who quit in May over lack of progress in reforming the public employee pension system.
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“Hyun is the right person to smoothly assist the president in political affairs with his political sense, sociability and a widespread human network,” presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook said.
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Hyun worked for the Federation of Korean Trade Union — one of South Korea’s two largest labor unions with more than 650,000 members — before serving as lawmaker from 2008 to 2012. (Yonhap)
