Gyeonggi Province has selected experts to lead the newly established Immigration and Social Affairs Bureau, AI Bureau, Audit Committee, and Provincial Residents' Rights Committee through the organizational restructuring in the second half of the 8th term of the elected government.
On the 23rd, Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-yeon appointed Kim Won-kyu, former Head of Human Rights Policy Division at the National Human Rights Commission, as the new Director of the Immigration and Social Affairs Bureau; Kim Ki-byeong, former Executive Director at Amazon Web Services Korea, as Director of the AI Bureau; Ahn Sang-seop, former Standing Auditor at Korea Securities Depository, as Chairman of the Audit Committee; and Jang Jin-su, former Head of External Cooperation at KEPCO Industrial Development, as Chairman of the Provincial Residents' Rights Committee, and presented them with their appointment letters at the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Office.
Kim Won-kyu, Director of the Immigration and Social Affairs Bureau, served as a human rights investigator and Head of the Human Rights Policy Division at the National Human Rights Commission from 2006 to 2021, handling human rights protection tasks. A lawyer by profession, he recently worked at the Migrant Legal Support Center providing legal assistance on refugee support, migrant wage arrears, and visa issues.
The Immigration and Social Affairs Bureau is responsible for comprehensive measures supporting settlement and adaptation of residents with migration backgrounds such as foreigners, migrant workers, and multicultural families, as well as addressing overall issues related to their safety, healthcare, labor, and education.
Kim Ki-byeong, Director of the AI Bureau, was a senior researcher at LG Electronics Solution Strategy Group from 2009 to 2014, served as Director of the Global e-Government Division at the Ministry of the Interior and Safety from 2016 to 2019, and successfully led strategic projects including AI, big data, and quantum computing while managing government public projects at Amazon Web Services Korea (AWS KOREA).
The AI Bureau is responsible for the overall promotion of the province’s AI policies, including fostering AI-based industries, digital administrative innovation, and planning and utilizing AI and data convergence.
Ahn Sang-seop, Chairman of the Audit Committee, is a lawyer who served as Standing Auditor at Korea Securities Depository from 2019 to 2022, performing anti-corruption and audit duties. He is an expert in auditing, having served as a legal advisor for anonymous proxy reporting (internal whistleblowing) at the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, a member of the Presidential Secretariat’s Ordinary Disciplinary Committee, and a director at the Korea Audit Association and Korea Public Institution Audit Association. As the inaugural Chairman of the Audit Committee, he will oversee provincial audits and integrity policies.
Jang Jin-su, Chairman of the Provincial Residents' Rights Committee, began his public service career in 2005 as an Administrative Officer at the Office for Government Policy Coordination and has worked in the Financial Review Office, Investigation Review Office, and the Prime Minister’s Office Public Service Ethics Support Office. He also served as Policy Advisor to the Minister of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety (equivalent to Grade 3 Special Appointment) and as Head of External Cooperation at KEPCO Industrial Development.
He is recognized as a whistleblower who exposed illegal government surveillance of civilians during the Lee Myung-bak administration, raising expectations that he will be well-suited to protect residents’ rights and provide remedies.
Earlier, Gyeonggi Province restructured the Auditor’s Office, which had been operated under a single-director system for 61 years, into the independent collegial administrative bodies of the Audit Committee and the Provincial Residents' Rights Committee on September 2.
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