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Thu, March 4, 2021 | 19:33
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Esteemed ex-judge to head Park's transition committee
대통령직 인수위원장에 김용준 전 헌재소장
Posted : 2012-12-27 18:45
Updated : 2012-12-27 18:45
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By Kang Hyun-kyung

Kim Yong-jun, chairman of the presidential transition teamChin Young, vice chairman of the transition team
Kim Yong-jun, chairman of the presidential transition team
Kim Yong-jun, chairman of the presidential transition teamChin Young, vice chairman of the transition team
Chin Young, vice chairman of the transition team
President-elect Park Geun-hye appointed Kim Yong-jun, a former head of the Constitutional Court, to lead the presidential transition team, Thursday, while naming a close aide and ruling party lawmaker as its deputy chief.

During the 60 days of its existence, Chairman Kim will oversee the team laying the groundwork for key issues on the new president's national agenda.

Kim told reporters that he would do his best to help Park live up to her commitments of becoming a leader of unity and putting people's livelihoods first.

Kim was a career headliner and something of a legend after overcoming polio. He passed the state-bar exam at the age of 20, and started his legal career in 1960 as the youngest judge in the nation's history.

During a briefing on the selections at the Saenuri Party, Yoon Chang-jung, the chief spokesman for the transition team, said Kim is expected to help Park execute her belief in the rule of law and security, and help the incoming government take over smoothly.

Yoon said, "expertise, managerial skills, patriotism, integrity and merit-based selections" were the five guidelines that the President-elect used when selecting team members.

"The transition team will be smaller but constructive," he said.

The main opposition Democratic United Party downplayed Park's selections as transition team members, saying they showed the President-elect's "revolving door policy."

In a statement, Rep. Yun Kwan-seok, a DUP spokesman, said the lineup was not impressive as most of them were key post holders of the Park camp during the election season.

A couple of celebrities, Yin Yo-han (John Linton), a professor at Yonsei University's Severance Hospital and Kollen Park, an artistic director at Kyyk Musical Studio, were on the list. In general, however, the lineup didn't come as a surprise as Park chose the usual suspects who had previously worked for her camp during the presidential election.

Park also named Rep. Chin Young, chief policymaker of the ruling Saenuri Party, as vice chairman of the transition team.

The three-term lawmaker oversaw Park's presidential campaign vision during the campaign.

Kim is a symbolic figure to represent the transition team, whereas Chin will be in charge of reviewing the feasibility of Park's campaign pledges before they are set as the national agenda under the new government.

Park also named Han Kwang-ok, a former presidential chief of staff to the late President Kim Dae-jung, as chairman of the newly-created Committee of National Unity.

In that capacity, Han will oversee the drawing up of measures to make Park's policy focus on unity tangible. He was one of the key aides of former President Kim, a towering figure representing the nation's western region while alive.

Kim Kyung-jae, a former lawmaker of the Democratic Party (now the Democratic United Party), will assist Han in producing reconciliation measures as a vice chairman of the committee.

The unity committee and the Special Committee for Youth are the two iconic bodies set up in the transition team.

Spokesman Yoon said the youth committee was established to produce measures to ease youth unemployment and other headaches facing young people.

Rep. Kim Sang-min, 38, of the ruling Saenuri Party was tapped to lead this committee. The first-term lawmaker was chosen as he was the founder of a university students' voluntary service group.

Park unveiled the lineup of the six-member youth committee members including celebrity Kolleen Park.

The President-elect will unveil the second and third batch of transition team members soon, Yoon said.


대통령직 인수위원장에 김용준 전 헌재소장

부위원장 진 영ㆍ국민대통합위원장 한광옥ㆍ청년특위위원장 김상민
국민대통합 수석부위원장 김경재..박칼린 청년특위위원 영입
새누리당 선대위 인사 중심 발탁..제3의 `깜짝인물' 없어


박근혜 대통령 당선인은 27일 제18대 대통령직 인수위원장에 새누리당 공동선대위원장을 지낸 김용준(74) 전 헌법재판소장을 임명했다. 

또 인수위 부위원장에는 진 영 새누리당 정책위의장을 임명했다.

국민대통합위원장에는 한광옥 전 전 선대위 국민대통합위원회 수석부위원장, 국민대통합위 수석부위원장에는 김경재 전 민주당 의원을 각각 발탁하고 청년특위위원장에는 김상민 의원을 기용했다.

박 당선인 측 윤창중 수석대변인은 이날 여의도 당사에서 기자회견을 갖고 이 같은 내용의 1차 인수위 인선안을 발표했다.

이번 1차 인수위 인선은 새누리당 대선 중앙선대위 핵심 인사들을 중심으로 발탁한 것이 가장 큰 특징이다. 

이 때문에 인선이 안정감을 준다는 평가와 함께 인수위 책임자급 인사 가운데 새로운 제3의 `깜짝인물'이 없다는 점에서 감동이 덜 하다는 지적도 나온다.

김용준 인수위원장은 서울가정법원, 광주고법, 서울고법 부장판사 생활과 서울가정법원장을 거쳐 소아마비 지체장애인으로서는 처음으로 1988년 대법관에 임명됐고, 1994년 제2대 헌법재판소장에까지 올랐다.

진 영 부위원장은 판사 출신 3선 의원에 박 당선인의 당 대표 시절 비서실장을 지낸 인물로, 박 당선인의 총선 공약을 입법화하는데 앞장선 데 이어 이번 대선과정에서는 대선공약 개발을 담당했다.

윤 대변인은 인수위원장 인선에 대해 '당선인의 법치와 사회안전에 대한 확고한 소신을 뒷받침하고 대통령직 인수위를 통해 새 정부가 원활하게 출범할 수 있도록 잘 준비해 줄 것으로 기대한다'고 말했다.

또 부위원장 인선에 대해선 '인수위가 새 정부의 국정철학과 정책기조를 설정하는 과정에서 공약의 우선순위와 실천 로드맵을 연계성 있게 통합조정해줄 것을 기대한다'고 말했다. 

박 당선인은 자신이 새 정부의 첫 번째 화두로 던진 국민대통합의 실천을 위한 국민대통합위원회를 설치하고, 실업문제 등 청년문제 해결을 위한 청년특별위원회도 따로 뒀다.

고(故) 김대중 전 대통령 비서실장 출신인 한광옥 국민대통합위원장과 김경재 수석부위원장은 이번 대선 때 박 당선인 지지를 선언하며 새누리당에 합류한 인물로, 박 당선인의 국민대통합정치를 구현하는데 앞장설 것으로 예상된다.

대선 과정에 참여했던 인요한 연세대 교수와 윤주경 매헌기념사업회 이사, 김중태 전 서울대 민족주의비교연구회장은 국민대통합위 부위원장단에 합류했다.

청년특위 위원장에 발탁된 김상민 의원은 대학생자원봉사단 V원정대 대표 출신으로, 반값등록금 등 대학생을 겨냥한 공약개발과 더불어 박 당선인이 젊은층과 스킨십을 하는데 있어 가교역할을 해 왔다.

정현호 전국대학총학생회모임 집행장과 윤상규 네오위즈게임즈 대표, 박칼린 `킥뮤지컬' 스튜디오 예술감독, 하지원 에코맘 코리아대표, 오신환 새누리당 중앙청년위원장, 이종식 채널A 기자도 청년특위 위원으로는 인수위에 합류했다.     (서울=연합뉴스)
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