President Moon Jae-in and Yoo Young-min’s political relationship began with a single word: “Please protect Busan.”

Young-min Yoo, the new chief secretary of the 3rd Blue House
President Moon recruited politicians from IT company Yoo 5 years ago
Busan Candidate Chief Yoo Did Not Defend President Moon’s Will

In January 2016, five years ago, the new presidential secretary, Yoo Young-min, entered politics on the recommendation of President Moon Jae-in, who was the representative of the Democratic Party at the time, before the 20 general elections. . Kim Jong-in, who exercised the right to nominate at the time, saw the possibility of winning the Emergency Response Committee of the Democratic Party and tried to strategically nominate Mr. Yoo al Incheon Yeonsu-eul.

However, after contemplating it, Mr. Yoo decides to apply for Haeundae Gap in Busan, which was one of the most difficult places. He challenged Busan even though he knew he would be defeated at President Moon’s word, ‘What if I could run for Busan instead of Incheon?’ The result was an “as expected” failure.

Even though the Moon Jae-in administration did not achieve his dream of being a member of the National Assembly. The XX general elections of 2016 and the XXI general elections of 2020 were successively lost. However, he was chosen as the next presidential secretary responsible for closing President Moon’s term. In the political world, it is very likely that Mr. Yoo will become President Moon’s last secretary.

Yoo Young-min, who was recruited by President Moon five years ago

Five years ago, President Moon and Mr. Yoo had a political relationship. On January 15, 2016, President Moon, who was then the leader of the Democratic Party, held a press conference and introduced Yoo as the 11th talent in recruiting before the general election in his 20. President Moon introduced Mr. Yoo at that time and emphasized the origin of Busan. He said: “As a competent economic party, the Uri Party will contribute to the formulation of policies for the food industry in the future.”

However, Yoo put more weight on running for the metropolitan area than Busan at the time. This is because President Moon declared the Paik Jong-gun and handed over the general election baton to CEO Kim Jong-in, and Kim wanted to strategically nominate Mr. Yoo for Yeonsu-eul, Incheon.

CEO Kim paid attention to the career of Mr. Yoo, who served as President of the POSCO Research Institute, and thought he was the right person to commission the training course where POSCO Engineering headquarters was established. The party’s own market analysis and public opinion polls are said to have made the decision a battle worth trying.

Director Yoo received a call from the party regarding the nomination area, but on the recommendation of one person, he began to worry deeply again. President Moon actively requested that Mr. Yoo come to Busan, saying that it would be good to run for Busan..

A passport official who was familiar with the nomination process at the time said: “In the party, the importance of Busan is great in every election, but I felt desperately missing good people.”President Moon had a strong desire to protect (Busan), Mr. Yoo, who is from Busan and knows information technology and economics well.“Said.

Yoo interviewed Open Democratic Party spokesperson Kim Seong-hoe, who filmed a video in support of the Democratic Party candidates ahead of the 21 general elections in February last year and uploaded it to the Social Media Service (SNS), and conveyed the complicated sentiments during the 20th general election.

He said: “(At the time of the 20th general election), the day after I contacted President Moon after receiving a strategic nomination notification from the party, I spoke with my wife.”My wife said, ‘It is not a dori to go to Songdo. Even if he wins the election in Incheon, President Moon has recruited him, but how can he achieve that relationship?“He said.

Thus “I concluded that it would be correct to go to Busan if I continued to do politics even after my defeat.He decided to follow the decision of President Moon, who recognized his potential even though he knew how to lose the election by running on rough terrain. Yoo ran for Haeundae Gap in Busan in last year’s 4-15 general election, but failed.

“President Moon, starting to pay attention to me since 2014”

It appears that President Moon’s attention to Mr. Yoo was based on a book he wrote in 2014. President Moon at the time Director Yoo’s Book ‘Imagination Becomes Reality’After reading the book, I posted the impression that I read it deeply on Twitter. “I wish politics had a lot of imagination.”I wrote.

In an interview with the media, Mr. Yoo said, “At this time, President Moon seems to be indirectly interested in me.” Since President Moon read your book, your insight and creativity about your future has increased.

Mr. Yoo helped Moon enter the Blue House even before entering the political world and even after entering the political world. During the 2012 presidential election, he served as an economic policy advisory group at President Moon’s presidential camp. In the 2017 presidential elections, five years later, he served as chair of the Camp’s Digital Communication Committee.

Although Mr. Yoo was unable to enter the National Assembly, President Moon selected him to serve in public office first. In July 2017, Mr. Yoo was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Science, Technology and Information of the Moon Jae-in government. President Moon saw Mr. Yoo as the right person to lead the new government’s science policy philosophy of discovering growth engines by responding proactively to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

When Yoo took over as Minister of Science and Technology, he made Korea the world’s first 5G commercialization country. In 2026, the size of the 5G market is expected to grow to 1.5 trillion won, and it was driven with a conviction to get ahead of it.

Initially, the commercialization of 5G was destined for the end of the year in 2019, but Yoo brought it forward eight months. As a result, he announced the first global commercialization of 5G with President Moon in early April 2019. Mr. Yoo was also assessed as a leader in expanding investment in data and artificial intelligence (AI), revitalizing investment risk management, the introduction of a regulatory sandbox and the reorganization of the national technology and development (R&D) system.

Yoo Young-min, her son’s boss, Kun-ho

Some refer to the relationship between the late President Roh Moo-hyun and Chief Yoo, and mention the relationship between President Moon and Chief Yoo.

Geon-ho, son of former President Roh, joined LG Electronics before the 2002 presidential election. Mr. Yoo was an executive at LG Electronics at the time, and Mr. Kun Ho was assigned to the IT department under control of Mr. Yoo. It is known that former President Roh turned his attention to Mr. Kun-ho when he appreciated his boss, Mr. Yoo.

This story also appeared in Mr. Yoo’s personal audience before he became Minister of Science and Technology in 2017. In the opposition party, Yoo set the day as a blessing to become a candidate for Minister of Science and Technology. Yoo said, “As a boss at work, I attended Mr. Gunho’s wedding and shared greetings with former President Roh,” and drew a line to public speculation that he had a special relationship with former President Roh through the Mr. Gunho.

However, Mr. Yoo served as the director of the Korea Software Promotion Agency for two years starting in 2006, during the Roh Moo-hyun administration. However, as a former corporate executive, he was evaluated for his superior organizational and managerial control ability. In 2007, KISA, which had been at the bottom of the management evaluation of public institutions, became the number one public institution in institutional evaluation after one year in office. Mr. Yoo received top marks in the agency head’s evaluation at that time.

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Yoo is expected to focus on the recovery of the economy, which was affected by the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) and the Korean New Deal, which President Moon is ambitiously pursuing.

President Roh Young-min, former presidential secretary general, introduced Mr. Yoo and said, “Deokjang with communication leadership in various fields such as economics, administration and politics.” He was evaluated as the best person to command the presidential secretariat to promote the task of national affairs ”.

Born in Busan, Siljang Yoo graduated from Dongnae High School in Busan and the Department of Mathematics at Pusan ​​National University, and is a former entrepreneur who has gone from executive to executive at LG Electronics. After serving as Vice President of LG CNS, he served as General President of POSCO ICT and Senior Researcher at POSCO Management Research Institute.

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