Jung Hyeon-hui, head of Testing and Inspection Bureau, named head of Consumer Safety Center at Korea Consumer Agency

2024.07.16. The Fair Economy — The Korea Consumer Agency said on the 16th that Jung Hyeon-hui, director of the Testing and Inspection Bureau, has been appointed as the new head of the Consumer Safety Center and will begin her duties on the 17th.

The term of the head of the Consumer Safety Center is two years (renewable), and the appointment is made by the president of the Korea Consumer Agency from among candidates recommended by the executive recommendation committee.

According to the agency, the newly appointed director, Jung Hyeon-hui, joined the Korea Consumer Agency in 1996 and has served for about 28 years in roles such as Testing and Inspection Director, Testing Planning Team Leader, and Food Microbe Team Leader. In particular, since 2012, she has overseen the 'Product Quality Comparative Information' project, assisting consumers in making rational purchasing decisions and contributing to the spread of eco-friendly consumption culture.

Director Jung Hyeon-hui is expected to play a major role in establishing a safe consumer environment by strengthening the system for identifying and verifying hazardous factors based on her experience and expertise in consumer safety, expanding safety investigations of products closely related to daily life, and increasing the production of comparative information.