Top Personnel Change

President Yang Jae-yeol takes over the helm at KESCO

The Korea Electricity Safety Corp.(KESCO) announced recently that President Yang Jae-yeol has taken over as its CEO as of May 2. The new president will serve for three years until April 30, 2010.
The new CEO skipped his inauguration speech at his inauguration ceremony, but instead, he mingled with employees and toured every corner of the KESCO building talking with them. He told the employees to work hard to provide first-class service, knowing that it will ensure the future course of the company, rationalize personnel management and the organization through cooperation and mutual existence. He also called on employees to spare no efforts to make KESCO an envy of the country as a workplace that every one would like to join, and a job that employees can be proud of like their homes.
He said he will do every thing he can to listen to employees one of them being conducting dialogue with employees as often as possible.
The new CEO is from Okcheon, Chungcheong Province, and earned a master's degree from Yonsei University Graduate School in administration and doctorate from Myungji University in administration. He also finished top managers course at the Seoul University Graduate School.
The new CEO joined the Presidential Security Office after retiring from the Army as a translator for the Special Army Command. From 2003 to January, 2006, he served as deputy head of the Presidential Security Office just before being appointed as President of KESCO.
Among his dissertations for high degrees are "A Study on Security Guard Basic Theories,"and "Measures for Effective Security Guard Organization Management"for which he received a doctorate degree.
In the meantime, KESCO held conference on information exchange on the two countries'electricity safety management systems and related technologies with officials from the Japan Electricity Security Association on April 12 at the conference room at its headquarters in Seoul.
Participating in the conference on the Japanese side were Masaki Hirano, managing director of the Japanese association,
Manager Noboru Kurakano of the Kanto Electricity Security Association, and Deputy Manager Yukio Uto and exchanged information on such matters as the electricity safety management system and inspection system. The Japanese officials presented information on their electricity security management system at the meeting which were very useful for KESCO, KESCO officials said.
Japanese officials paid much interest in KESCO's speed call system and the special security checking system. The two sides pledged to do their best in exchanging information on remote security control system to be developed with the successful application of IT with the power industry and new power checking technologies.
The two organizations will cooperate closely in the area of the exchange of information on electrical safety and cooperation on a continuous basis in the future.
In the meantime, KESCO launched the 24-hour speed-call service on complaints from customers free of charge and expand it nationwide at the company's head office in Myeong-il-dong, Seoul, with some 200 people from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy, the National Emergency Management Agency and the organizations related to electricity.
The speed-call service is a 24-hour service for emergency electrical accidents inside the houses and buildings intended to prevent accidents or fire related to electricity from happening. It started from Jeju Island in the country in 2005 and spread to other parts of the country from last year amid great support from the people. The service will be expanded all across the country ultimately and only available free of charges to households that receive the minimum of support from the government for their livelihood, residents of public housing for low-income people and farm-fishing village residents. The service is available at 1588-7500. nw

Key officials from the Japan Electricity Safety Association led by Masaki Hirano, 2nd R, exchange information on the safety of electricity with officials of the Korea Electricity Safety Association (KESCO) April 12 at the KESCO conference room in Seoul.
President Yang Jae-yeol of the KESCO