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Ministries have told the heads of organizations appointed during the Roh Moo-hyun administration not to attend policy briefings for President Lee Myung-bak. Their decisions follow statements by some ministers and senior presidential aides urging the Roh appointees to retire.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism on Thursday said it banned Korea Tourism Organization CEO Oh Jee-chul and Korea Broadcast Advertising Corporation CEO Jung Soon-kyun from attending policy briefing for President Lee scheduled for Friday.
A senior ministry official said, "Public corporations are completely government-funded and operated under the government's supervision. Their heads should already have made way for newcomers now a new government is in power. But they haven't yet."
Another government official said, "It's against common sense if senior appointees of the previous government who have different political convictions and philosophy attend policy briefings designed for the new government. Many of such appointees who used to work as mouthpieces for the Roh administration's failed policies are still staying in many government agencies, in particular the Culture Ministry."
The Ministry of Knowledge Economy, the Ministry of Land and Maritime Affairs, and the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs and others are also to ban Roh appointees from policy briefings.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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