Lee Jae-myung's government appointed Noh Yong-seok, head of the Small and Medium Enterprise Policy Office, as the first Vice Minister of the Ministry of SMEs and Startups on the 13th.

Noh Yong-seok, appointed as the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Startups on the 13th, is the Director of the Small and Medium Enterprises Policy Division. /Courtesy of the Presidential Office

The new Vice Minister was born in 1971 in Daegu, graduated from Kyungpook National University High School and Sungkyunkwan University with a degree in business administration, and earned a master's degree in business administration from ESSEC Business School in France.

He entered public service as the 41st batch of the Administrative Examination and has worked as the Director of Startup Promotion Policy and Director of Small and Medium Enterprise Policy, as well as Director General for Policy Planning, and has served as the head of the Small and Medium Enterprise Policy Office until now.

Kang Yoo-jung, spokesperson for the presidential office, noted that “the new Vice Minister Noh is a professional bureaucrat who will implement the president's philosophy to support the continuous growth of small and medium enterprises and small business owners and to revive the innovative venture ecosystem, opening the era of 100 unicorns.”

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