Yoon Seok-yeol Camp Think Tank Launched... Kim Kyung-ryul Joined Then Excluded

Childhood Friend Lee Cheol-woo Appointed Secretary
Honorary Professor Kim Hyung-gi Named Chairman

Former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, a presidential candidate from the People Power Party, is giving an interview to reporters after expressing his position on the amendment to the Media Arbitration Act, which the ruling party forcibly passed alone, at the National Assembly Communication Office in Yeouido, Seoul on August 22, 2021. Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Hyun-joo] Former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol's campaign launched the think tank 'Future Vision Committee' on the 24th. It is composed of experts from various fields including economy, business, labor, education, science and technology, welfare, youth, and women, totaling 19 members.

Kim Hyung-ki, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Economics and Trade at Kyungpook National University, was appointed as the chairman. The campaign introduced him as "a representative scholar with a centrist reformist tendency and an expert in economic development models."

Lee Cheol-woo, Professor at Yonsei University Law School, will serve as the secretary and is expected to research the ideology of the rule of law. Professor Lee is known to have been a longtime friend of former Prosecutor General Yoon since childhood.

Lee Seok-jun, former Director of the Office for Government Policy Coordination and currently the policy general director of Yoon's campaign, is also participating, along with former Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Sung-han, former lawmaker Kim Young-hwan, and Professor Mo Jong-rin of Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies.

Meanwhile, accountant Kim Kyung-yul, initially a representative progressive critic, was excluded after initially joining as a committee member. Kim, author of the 'Cho Kuk Black Book,' was once selected as an interviewer during the Democratic Party's last preliminary election process but was later canceled.