According to the Blue House, Lee Tae-hyeong, the senior secretary for civil affairs, and Jeon Chi-young, the senior secretary for public service discipline, began working in their new roles that day.
The special inspection team, which had been under the public service discipline office, was also moved under the civil affairs office, officials said.
The personnel switch within the same senior secretariat was seen as unusual. The Blue House did not disclose the reason for the changes.
Separately, President Lee Jae-myung is set to meet Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis at the Blue House on April 27 to discuss cooperation on artificial intelligence.
Hassabis, a founder of Google DeepMind, oversaw the 2016 matches between Go champion Lee Sedol and the AI program AlphaGo. He also won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing AlphaFold, an AI model that predicts protein structures.
The Blue House said the meeting is part of the government’s broader push for global AI cooperation and is expected to help accelerate policy efforts through collaboration with a top-tier AI company.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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