Yoo Myung-hee (Korean: 유명희; Hanja: 兪明希, born 5 June 1967) is the current Minister for Trade of South Korea. She is the first woman to hold the position since it was created in 1948. She is considered to be the veteran trade bureaucrat of over twenty years of experience who worked in various levels at multiple agencies including the South Korean embassy to China, the Office of the President and ministries responsible for trade policies - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (now-Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (now-Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy) and most recently Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. She was previously deputy Trade Minister before her predecessor Kim Hyun-jong was reassigned as deputy national security advisor to the President.
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