Shin Jee-yeon (Korean신지연; Hanja辛志娟; born 17 September 1967) is a South Korean lawyer who served as the private secretary (Korean제1부속비서관[1]) to the President Moon Jae-in at the Office of the President. She is the first woman to become the private secretary to the South Korean president[2] and the first person to have served as private secretary to both the president and their spouse.

Shin Jee-yeon
신지연
Private Secretary to the President
In office
24 August 2019 – 9 May 2022
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Preceded byCho Han-ki
Private Secretary to the First Lady
In office
9 January 2019 – 23 August 2019
Preceded byYoo Song-hwa
Succeeded byChoi Sang-yeong
Secretary to the President for Foreign Press
In office
24 May 2017 – 8 January 2019
PresidentMoon Jae-in
Succeeded byKim Ae-kyung
Personal details
Born (1967-09-17) 17 September 1967 (age 57)
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
New York Law School

Shin was the deputy spokesperson for foreign press at Moon's first presidential campaign in 2012[3] which she joined after working for major law firms - Kim & Chang and Bae, Kim & Lee - and Samsung Engineering.[4] She joined Moon's campaign again in 2017 as his coordinator for personal image.[5] She was foreign press secretary in the beginning of President Moon's term but later reshuffled to private secretary to first lady Kim Jung-sook and now President Moon.[6]

She holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a J.D. from New York Law School in June 1998.[4][7]

References

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  1. ^ "'It's actually a system where Choi Sun-sil tells the President what to do'". The Hankyoreh. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  2. ^ "靑 제1부속비서관 신지연… 여성 첫 임명". The Dong-a Ilbo (in Korean). 2019-08-24. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  3. ^ 아리랑TV [AFTER10] 문재인 캠프 외신담당 신지연 부대변인(2012.12.14), retrieved 2020-04-22
  4. ^ a b "[프로필]신지연 靑 제2부속비서관 - 머니투데이 뉴스". news.mt.co.kr (in Korean). 2019-01-09. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  5. ^ "김외숙·신지연·고민정···청와대 여성비서관 전성시대". JoongAng Ilbo (in Korean). 2019-08-24. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  6. ^ "文대통령 총선용 비서관 인사…제1부속 신지연·정무 김광진". The Korea Economic Daily (in Korean). 2019-08-23. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
  7. ^ 106th Commencement. New York Law School. 1998-06-08. p. 17. Retrieved 2021-11-03.