Board of Audit and Inspection President Kim Ho-cheol on the 26th recommended to President Lee Jae-myung that former Blue House senior secretary for judicial system Lee Jin-guk be appointed as a new Commissioner. He would succeed former Commissioner Lee Nam-gu, whose four-year term ended in April.
If the president appoints the former senior secretary, four of the seven members of the Board of Commissioners would be appointees of the president, a majority. The Board of Commissioners deliberates and decides by majority vote on major audit plans and audit results of the Board of Audit and Inspection.
Born in 1967, the former senior secretary is from Goseong, South Gyeongsang. He graduated from Tongyeong High School in South Gyeongsang and the law department of Dong-A University in Busan. He earned a doctorate from the University of Marburg in Germany. He then served as a research fellow at the Korea Institute of Criminology and Justice. Since 2007, he has been a professor at Ajou University Law School, and from July last year to January this year, he was the Blue House senior secretary for judicial system in the Lee Jae-myung administration.
The Board of Commissioners consists of the president of the Board of Audit and Inspection and six Commissioners. President Kim Ho-cheol and Commissioners Choi Seung-pil and Lim Sun-sook were appointed by the president. Commissioners Kim Young-shin, Yu Byung-ho, and Baek Jae-myung were appointed by former President Yoon Suk-yeol.