The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced director-general level (Grade 1) personnel appointments on the 6th, with the headquarters seeing its first female director-general. The appointee is Jeong Hyang-mi as Director-General of Culture and Arts Policy.
Director-General Jeong previously served as Director of Tourism Policy, Director-General of Cultural Policy, and Director-General of Copyright Policy. The Culture and Arts Policy Office oversees the Cultural Policy Bureau, Arts Policy Bureau, Regional Culture Policy Bureau, and the Asia Culture Center City Promotion Agency.
While this marks the first female appointment at the director-general level, the ministry already has nearly 10 female directors at the bureau chief level, suggesting more female director-generals will follow soon.
In the ministry's history, Park Myung-soon served as director-general level head of the Korean Culture and Information Service, but that position was outside the main headquarters.