Kim Chungyum

South Korean politician

Kim Chung-yum (Hangul: 김정렴; Hanja: 金正濂; 3 January 1924 – 25 April 2020) was a South Korean politician. Working for President Park Chung-hee, he was the longest serving chief presidential secretary in South Korean history from 1969 to 1979.[1] He also was Minister of Finance and Minister of Commerce and Industry from in 1966 and from 1967 to 1969.[2] From 1979 to 1980, he was an Ambassador to Japan. Kim was a member of the Democratic Republican Party.

Kim died on 25 April 2020, aged 96.[3]

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  1. "The man who could have stopped Park's killing". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on 2017-11-17. Retrieved 2020-04-26.
  2. Clifford, Mark L. (5 December 2016). Troubled Tiger: Businessmen, Bureaucrats and Generals in South Korea. Routledge. ISBN 9781315293233 – via Google Books.
  3. 김정렴 전 비서실장 별세···"차지철도 꼼짝못한 박정희정부 실세" Archived 2020-05-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Korean)