Kim Oe-sook

{{Short description|South Korean lawyer (born 1967)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| native_name = {{nobold|김외숙}}

| alma_mater = Seoul National University (LLB)
University of Virginia (LLM)

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1967|8|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Pohang, South Korea

| office = Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs

| president = Moon Jae-in

| predecessor = Cho Hyun-ok

| termstart = 29 May 2019

| office1 = Minister of Government Legislation

| president1 = Moon Jae-in

| primeminister1 = Lee Nak-yeon

| termstart1 = 12 June 2017

| termend1 = 29 May 2019

| succeeded1 = Kim Hyeong-yeon

| party = Democratic Party of Korea

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| termend = 9 May 2022

| successor = position abolished

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Kim Oe-sook ({{Korean|hangul=김외숙}}; born 10 August 1967) is a South Korean lawyer served as President Moon Jae-in's Senior Presidential Secretary for Personnel Affairs from 2019 to 2022 and previously served as his first Minister of Government Legislation - the second woman ever to lead the Ministry.{{Cite news|url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20190528005900315?section=search|title=Moon replaces National Tax Service chief}}

After passing the bar exam in 1989 and completing the training at the Judicial Research and Training Institute in 1992, she began and dedicated her career as a lawyer at law firm Busan,{{Cite web|url=http://moleg.go.kr/english/minister?subId=2|title=Minister Kim Oe-sook's history}} which is founded by Moon after former President and then-lawyer Roh Moo-hyun quit a law firm Roh and Moon jointly opened to become a lawmaker.{{Cite news|url=http://www.arirang.com/news/News_View.asp?nseq=238022&sys_lang=Kor|title=Moon replaces three vice-ministerial level officials, as show of determination to speed up administration's reform drive}}

Kim took various roles: the Vice-president of Korean Women Lawyers Association, a member of Busan Regional Labor Relations Commission, a Commissioner of Council of Conciliation at Busan High Court and a member of Busan and Gyeongsangbuk-do Administrative Appeals Commissions.{{Cite news|url=http://news.koreanbar.or.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=17390|script-title=ko:국민의 눈높이로 소통하는 법제처의 수장|language=ko|trans-title=Minister Kim for engaging with citizens}} She also taught and led a law clinic at Dong-A University Law School as an adjunct professor.

Kim is one of few senior officials of Office of the President Moon Jae-in to keep their post despite offering their resignation in midst of Moon's secretariat reshuffles in August 2020.{{Cite web|last=임 |first=형섭|date=2020-08-13|title=靑 "수석급 이상 인사 일단락"…노영민·김외숙 사표 반려(종합)|url=https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20200813109751001|access-date=2020-08-13|website=Yonhap News Agency|language=ko}}

She holds two degrees in law - a bachelor from Seoul National University and a master's from University of Virginia Law School.