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204448
Tue, 08/30/2011 - 23:45
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Yu, new unification minister, a key architect of Lee's major policies
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Yonhap) -- Yu Woo-ik, the newly appointed unification minister, is known as one of President Lee Myung-bak's most trusted policy advisers who mapped out several of Lee's flagship policies while serving as his first chief of staff in 2008.
Yu, 61, is credited with having maintained a dialogue channel with North Korea since retiring as South Korea's ambassador to China in May, raising speculation that his nomination as successor to Hyun In-taek would be imminent.
Yu led a group of geography and economy experts under Lee's election campaign team in 2007 to plan the so-called "Pan-Korea Grand Waterway Project," a scheme to build 17 waterways across South Korea, and a number of inter-Korean development projects. The waterway project was scrapped later in the face of stubborn resistance from opposition parties.
He stepped down from the post of presidential chief of staff in June 2008 due to public uproar over Seoul's decision to resume imports of American beef.
A Seoul National University graduate, Yu is the first Asian to head the International Geographic Union. He is known to have written the first drafts of several of Lee's campaign speeches in 2007 and was also involved in drafting his inauguration speech.
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Yu, 61, is credited with having maintained a dialogue channel with North Korea since retiring as South Korea's ambassador to China in May, raising speculation that his nomination as successor to Hyun In-taek would be imminent.
Yu led a group of geography and economy experts under Lee's election campaign team in 2007 to plan the so-called "Pan-Korea Grand Waterway Project," a scheme to build 17 waterways across South Korea, and a number of inter-Korean development projects. The waterway project was scrapped later in the face of stubborn resistance from opposition parties.
He stepped down from the post of presidential chief of staff in June 2008 due to public uproar over Seoul's decision to resume imports of American beef.
A Seoul National University graduate, Yu is the first Asian to head the International Geographic Union. He is known to have written the first drafts of several of Lee's campaign speeches in 2007 and was also involved in drafting his inauguration speech.
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