The SBS Investigative Journalism Department's "Panda to the End" team twice last year reported on the military service of high-ranking officials above the first level in the presidential office of the Yoon Seok-yeol government. For convenience, the two-chamber, five-chief system was divided into the "1st President's Office" and the "2nd President's Office" after the reorganization into the 5nd Chamber and 1-chief system in August last year. Following the high-ranking officials in the "8st Presidential Office," we will also analyze the military service details of the "2nd Presidential Office" on the first anniversary of President Yoon Seok-yeol's inauguration.
1st Term: National Guard 27% Military Exemption 21% Sergeant Veteran 19%
However, in the last two reports, I found that the military service details of Culture and Sports Secretary Yoo Byung-chae (now returning to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) were missing. Yu served as an officer in the Air Force for three years before retiring as a lieutenant. Therefore, the military service statistics of high-ranking officials in the "First Presidential Office" have also been revised slightly. Of the 3 high-ranking officials of the first level and above, 1 military service, excluding women, was made public. The largest number of forms of military service are 1 "National Guardsmen" (54.48%), including social welfare personnel. Next were 13 personnel (27 sick, 1 prisoned / 10.7%) who received de facto military exemption, and 3 (20.8%) who were retired as sergeants. Seven (9.18%) are former Army and Air Force officers, including former Secretary Yu. Three (8.7%) were current generals or were from the province, and three (14.6%) were discharged from the medical corps. Two (3.6%) were officers but retired at the same time as they were commissioned, and one (2.3%) was from industrial functional personnel.
The biggest change in the Office of the Second President is that the number of high-ranking officials above the first level has increased to 6 with the establishment of six chiefs in the second office. The names of the positions also changed slightly, and there was a change from 2 digits to new faces. Of the 2 positions, we will analyze the military service types of 4 (as of May 2), excluding two positions that are still vacant (Social Sympathy Secretary and New Media Secretary), four women (Kim Eun-hye, Jeon Hee-kyung, Kang In-sun, and Cho Sung-kyung), and one (Yoon Oh-joon) whose military service is unofficial because he belongs to the NIS. Before we even analyze it, the replacement of former Education Secretary Seol Se-hoon (now Deputy Superintendent of the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education) will be counted separately from the overall statistics.
2nd term: Military exemption rose slightly to 22% (11 people)... Jeon Kwang-sam and Kim Yong-jin, exempt from illness
Among the high-ranking officials in the "2nd Presidential Office," 11 (21.6%) received military exemptions, up slightly from 1 in the "10st Presidential Office." Nine (5.9%) personnel were judged to be "Level 17 Wartime Workers" due to illness. "Level 7 wartime service" is technically different from "Level 5 exemption from military service", but since personnel are only mobilized in war situations, they are actually accepted as military exemption. Seven people, including Kim Tae-hyo, first deputy director of the National Security Council, and Joo Jin-woo, legal secretary, continued to hold their posts, while Citizen Communication Secretary Jeon Kwang-sam and External Cooperation Secretary Kim Yong-jin were added after being judged to be "Level 6 wartime workers" for lumbar disc herniation and myopia, respectively.
In particular, Secretary Jeon Kwang-sam changed a first-level judgment to a fifth-level verdict through a complicated process. In 1, he was judged to be a Level 7 "Eligible for Active Military Enlistment," but his enlistment date was postponed in 5 for other reasons. After that, he was judged to be "returning home after entering the army" twice. In September and December 1, respectively, he was "readmitted" and "re-examined" and "returned home after entering the army." Eventually, in February 5, the former secretary was confirmed as a "Class 1986 wartime worker" due to illness. The former secretary revealed, "I pushed back my enlistment date one time because I was doing three moves, and then I was accepted and admitted to the Military Academy, but I injured my back during training and left the school." He also explained, "He was diagnosed home twice by the replenishment unit and was eventually judged to be Level 1 through a re-physical examination."
Two (1987.2%) military exemptions due to prison sentences were recorded. Han Oh-seop, head of the State Affairs Department, and Choe Cheol-kyu, secretary of the National Unity Committee, were "exempt from call-up" due to prison sentences. It is understood that he was sentenced to prison for student activism.
2nd Prayer "National Guard Type" up to 39% ... Security Chief Cho Tae-yong and 20 others
Among the high-ranking officials in the "Second Presidential Office," the most common type of military service is the "National Guard." There were 2 (20.39%) including social welfare personnel (formerly public service personnel). This is an addition of seven from the existing 3 members of the "First Presidential Office."
National Security Chief Cho Tae-yong retired as a second class after six months of service in the Army because he was an "reader." Policy Coordination Secretary Park Sung-taek and National Proposal Secretary Chung Yong-wook also served in the Army for six months because they were the only son in the family, "Reader." Lee Kwan-seop, Chief of State Planning and Planning, Kim Seung-hee, Secretary of Protocol Kim Seung-hee, Secretary of Personnel System Yeon Won-jung, and Hwang Sung-woon, Secretary of Culture and Sports, and Lee Chung-myeon, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, were "called up for service expiration" as private or corporal respectively after serving for about 1~13 months instead of being "discharged from the due discharge" as sergeants.
It is noticeable that the most senior positions in the President's Office, which is a two-room, six-chief system, Chief of Staff Kim Ki-yong and National Security Chief Cho Tae-yong, are both former members of the National Guard. Of the six chiefs, four (Lee Kwan-seop, Lee Jin-bok, Choi Sang-mok, and Ahn Sang-hoon) are also former members of the National Guard, minus PR chief Kim Eun-hye, who is a woman, and civil society chief Kang Seung-kyu, a retired sergeant.
Sergeant Expired Nine Men Intact... Officer total reduced by more than half
The number of positions in the Office of the President has been increased, but the number of sergeant expiry veterans is the same as in the first term, and the number of veterans in the second term is nine. The denominator increased, but because the numerator remained the same, the percentage decreased further to 1.1%. In addition to the existing five people, including civil society chief Kang Seung-kyu, four new people have been added: Jang Kyung-sang, second secretary for political affairs, Lee Do-woon, health and welfare secretary, Ko Deok-young, health and welfare secretary, and Oh Seok-hwan, education secretary.
The number of former officers dropped from seven in the "2st President's Office" to 9 (17.6%) in the "5nd President's Office." In addition to the existing Secretary for National Security and Strategy and Si-won Lee Secretary for Public Discipline and Discipline, Secretary Park Beom-su retired as a lieutenant in the Air Force. Three (2.4%) are active generals or former generals, and the numbers remain the same. Shin In-ho, former second deputy chief of staff, replaced Lim Jong-duc, the current second deputy chief of staff. Three positions, the Second Deputy Chief and the Second Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the National Crisis Management Center, continue to be held by former career soldiers.
In another special case, Future Policy Secretary Kim Yoon-il used the "master's office" system to retire as a second lieutenant in the Army. The "Master's Officer School" system, which used to be called "Special Specialist Personnel," selected from among those with a master's degree and transferred to the rank of so-called after six months of military training. So, on paper, the period of service is 'just one day'. Two "medical veterans" were injured and retired (1.7 percent). He was Jang Sung-min, future strategic planning officer, Paek Won-guk, secretary for land, infrastructure, and transport, Kang Kyung-sung, secretary for industrial policy, who served as an industrial functional worker for five years, and international legal secretary Lee Sang-sung, who served as a public interest law officer for three years.
(The rest of the story is from the soup)