Yoo Song-hwa
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Yoo Song-hwa | |
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| 유송화 | |
 Image of Yoo Song-hwa | |
| Director of the Chunchugwan Press Center at the Blue House | |
| In office 9 January 2019 – 15 January 2020 | |
| President | Moon Jae-in |
| Preceded by | Kwon Hyuk-ki |
| Succeeded by | Han Jung-woo |
| Private Secretary to the First Lady | |
| In office 17 May 2017 – 8 January 2019 | |
| Succeeded by | Shin Jee-yeon |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 6 April 1968 Goheung County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea |
| Party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Ewha Womans University University of Seoul Dongguk University |
Yoo Song-hwa (Korean: 유송화; Hanja: 兪松和; born 6 April 1968) is a South Korean politician who previously served as the Director of the Chunchugwan Press Center at the Blue House under President Moon Jae-in[1][2] - the third woman to assume such post.[3]
Upon the beginning of Moon's presidency, Yoo was appointed as the Private Secretary to the First Lady Kim Jung-sook.[4] As part of the Blue House staffer reshuffle in January 2019, she was promoted to the Director of the Press Center, Chunchugwan, at the Blue House, the only secretary-level staff at the Office of the President not working at secretariat buildings. She is the third woman to assume the post after Kim Hyun and Seo Young-kyo who were appointed by President Roh Moo-hyun 11 years ago.[3]
In January 2020, Yoo resigned from the post to stand for the upcoming general election in April.[2] She applied to run as her party's candidate for Seoul Nowon A constituency[5] but lost the primary to the incumbent Ko Yong-jin (Korean: 고용진).[6]
Yoo previously served as a Nowon District Council member from 1995 to 2002.[5] In the 2002 election, she was placed as the number 6 of the proportional list but could not be elected as a Seoul Metropolitan Council member. In 2003 she joined then-President-elect Roh Moo-hyun's transition team and later Offices of Senior Presidential Secretaries for civil societies and personnel affairs. She later worked for her party as public relations staff and later standing deputy spokesperson.[7] In 1988 she was the president of Ewha Womans University's student union.[8]
Yoo holds two degrees - a bachelor in economics from Ewha Womans University and a master's in urban administration from the University of Seoul. She also completed a doctorate programme on North Korean studies at Dongguk University.[9]
