SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea on Thursday named Lee Seung-heon as the new senior deputy governor at the central bank, to join as a voting board member of the monetary policy committee.
Lee, a veteran central banker with almost three decades of experience at the Bank of Korea, replaces incumbent senior deputy governor Yoon Myun-shik whose three-year term ends on Thursday.
(Reporting by Cynthia Kim, Joori Roh; Editing by Alison Williams)
