Chung Young-ai

Chung Young-ai (Korean: 정영애; Hanja: 鄭英愛; born 1955) is a South Korean professor of social welfare at Seoul Cyber University currently serving as Minister of Gender Equality and Family[1][2] under President Moon Jae-in from December 2020.[3] She is the first Korean to hold a doctorate degree in women's studies.[4]

In this Korean name, the family name is Chung.
Chung Young-ai
정영애
Minister of Gender Equality and Family
Assumed office
29 December 2020
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Prime MinisterChung Sye-kyun
Preceded byLee Jung-ok
Senior Secretary to the President for Personnel Affairs
In office
December 2007 – February 2008
PresidentRoh Moo-hyun
Preceded byPark Nam-choon
Succeeded byposition abolished
Secretary to the President for Personnel Affairs
In office
December 2003 – February 2006
PresidentRoh Moo-hyun
Personal details
Born1955
Alma materEwha Womans University

Chung currently serves as a board member of the Korean Foundation for Women just like her predecessor Lee Sook-jin.

In 1997 Chung was an advisor to the preceding agency of the Ministry, the Second Ministry of State for Political Affairs. A year later, she moved to South Chungcheong Provincial Governor's Office where she served as its first women's policy administrator for almost five years. In January 2003 she joined then-President-elect Roh Moo-hyun's transition team as a member of social, cultural and women's affairs division. Later that year Chung was appointed as Roh's presidential secretary for personnel affairs and continued to work for Roh til 2006. In 2007 she returned to Roh's Office of the President and served as a senior presidential secretary for personnel affairs, a vice-ministerial position, till the end of Roh's presidency in February 2008.[5]

Chung holds three degrees from Ewha Womans University - a bachelor and a master's in sociology and a doctorate in women's studies.[4]

References
  1. "Moon Carries Out Cabinet Reshuffle, Replaces 4 Ministers". world.kbs.co.kr. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  2. "여가부 장관 후보자 정영애는 누구?". www.hani.co.kr (in Korean). 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  3. "文대통령, 변창흠·정영애 인사 재가..29일 임기 시작(속보)". 이데일리 (in Korean). 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-12-28.
  4. 김보람 (2020-12-04). "(profile) Sociology expert tapped as gender minister". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
  5. "[정영애 여가부 장관 후보자는 누구?] '여성학 박사 1호'...성평등 정책 이론·실전 경험 풍부". 여성신문 (in Korean). 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2020-12-27.
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