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Oh Young-ho |
Oh Young-ho, executive vice chairman of the Korea International Trade Association, was named the president of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency.
Starting Monday, Oh will succeed Hong Suk-woo who took office as the minister of knowledge economy two weeks ago.
Having entered public service in 1980, Oh has served as the chief of the organizing committee of the Seoul G20 Business Summit and first vice minister of commerce, industry and energy, before the Ministry of Knowledge Economy received its current name in 2008. Oh majored in chemical engineering at Seoul National University.
By Kim So-hyun (
sophie@heraldcorp.com)
