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GS Group chair Huh Chang-soo retained as head of FKI
- Collected
- 2017.02.25
- Distributed
- 2017.02.27
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- Go Direct
![GS Group Chairman Huh Chang-soo accepts nomination to head of the FKI Friday. From left, Lee Woong-yeal, Kolon Industries Inc. Chairman; Park Young-joo, Eagon Industrial Co. Chairman; GS Group Chairman Huh Chang-soo; Kim Yoon, Samyang Holdings Corp Corp. Chairman. [By Lee Chung-woo]](http://file.mk.co.kr/meet/neds/2017/02/image_readtop_2017_132394_14879237252789496.jpg)
GS Group Chairman Huh Chang-soo accepts nomination to head of the FKI Friday. From left, Lee Woong-yeal, Kolon Industries Inc. Chairman; Park Young-joo, Eagon Industrial Co. Chairman; GS Group Chairman Huh Chang-soo; Kim Yoon, Samyang Holdings Corp Corp. Chairman. [By Lee Chung-woo]
The board on Friday approved extending his third term for another three years. Vice chair would to go to Kwon Tae-shin, head of the Korea Economic Research Institute.
Huh agreed to assume the role shunned by all other peers.
He plans to launch reform committee to overhaul the organization better known as a lobby group for top chaebols.
The committee would also comprise of Park Young-joo, Eagon Industrial Co. Chairman; Kim Yoon, Samyang Holdings Corp Corp. Chairman, Lee Woong-yeal, Kolon Industries Inc. Chairman.
It would draw up a plan to transform the organization into a nonprofit social think tank like Heritage Foundation or Business Roundtable.
Top four chaebols Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor, and LG Group that took up two thirds of the organization’s membership revenue bolted out of the group that came under fire for arranging corporate donations for organizations run by Choi Soon-sil, a controversial friend of President Park Geun-hye.
By Jung Wook
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