Alma Mater: | Seoul National University (LLB) University of Virginia (LLM) |
Birth Date: | 10 August 1967 |
Birth Place: | Pohang, South Korea |
Office: | Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs |
President: | Moon Jae-in |
Predecessor: | Cho Hyun-ok |
Termstart: | 29 May 2019 |
Office1: | Minister of Government Legislation |
President1: | Moon Jae-in |
Primeminister1: | Lee Nak-yeon |
Termstart1: | 12 June 2017 |
Termend1: | 29 May 2019 |
Succeeded1: | Kim Hyeong-yeon |
Party: | Democratic Party of Korea |
Termend: | 9 May 2022 |
Successor: | position abolished |
Kim Oe-sook (; born 10 August 1967) is a South Korean lawyer served as President Moon Jae-in's Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs from 2019 to 2022 and previously served as his first Minister of Government Legislation - the second woman ever to lead the Ministry.[1]
After passing the bar exam in 1989 and completing the training at the Judicial Research and Training Institute in 1992, she began and dedicated her career as a lawyer at law firm Busan,[2] which is founded by Moon after former President and then-lawyer Roh Moo-hyun quit a law firm Roh and Moon jointly opened to become a lawmaker.[3]
Kim took various roles: the Vice-president of Korean Women Lawyers Association, a member of Busan Regional Labor Relations Commission, a Commissioner of Council of Conciliation at Busan High Court and a member of Busan and Gyeongsangbuk-do Administrative Appeals Commissions.[4] She also taught and led a law clinic at Dong-A University Law School as an adjunct professor.
Kim is one of few senior officials of Office of the President Moon Jae-in to keep their post despite offering their resignation in midst of Moon's secretariat reshuffles in August 2020.[5]
She holds two degrees in law - a bachelor from Seoul National University and a master's from University of Virginia Law School.