SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) comissioner Jeong Eun-kyeong’s list of business spending in June is going viral on social media. Business spending refers to expenses incurred by heads of government agencies in carrying out their public duties and responsibilities. According to the expense report posted on the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean figures — Jeong Eun-kyeong and Bong Joon-ho — have been included on the TIME 100 list of the world’s most influential people of 2020, the magazine announced Wednesday. Jeong, commissioner of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA), made the list in the leaders category, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in attended a rare ceremony outside Cheong Wa Dae to appoint Jeong Eun-kyeong, South Korea’s disease control czar, as head of a new agency to operate autonomously with more authority and workforce. Jeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), has been tapped [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — When South Korea was reeling from hundreds of new coronavirus cases in late February due to a mass outbreak tied to a religious sect in the southeastern city of Daegu, many citizens were glued to daily televised briefings by Jeong Eun-kyeong, the chief of the country’s anti-disease agency, to [...]