Profile of new MOHW minister, JOO YANG-JA

Dr. Joo Yang Ja (67) was nominated as the 35th Minister of the MOHW. She, as a medical doctor, has vigorously carried out social as well as political activities in the National Assembly, and was listed on the most eligible candidate for the Minister of MOHW.

She graduated from Taegu Kyungbuk Girls Highschool in 1949 and entered the college of medicine, the Korea Univ., obtain...