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South Korea's Lee nominates new finance, industry ministers
SEOUL, June 29 (Reuters) - South Korea President Lee Jae Myung has nominated a former vice finance minister, Koo Yun-cheol, to be finance minister, his office said on Sunday.
Koo is widely known as a policy expert, serving different positions across the government and authoring books on South Korea's innovation and growth, Lee's chief of staff, Kang Hoon-sik, told a briefing.
Among other ministerial positions, Lee named Kim Jung-kwan, president of power plant builder Doosan Enerbility and a veteran bureaucrat in the energy sector, to be industry minister.
The former head of South Korea's disease control agency, Jeong Eun-kyeong, was nominated as health minister. She was highly praised for her response to the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming one of the Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of 2020.
