Career bureaucrat who served as Minister of Information and Communication and presidential economic secretary before becoming KT chairman
| Life | 1945 |
| Era | 현대 |
| Clan | 벽진 이씨 |
Yi Seok-chae (李錫采, born 1945) is a South Korean civil servant and businessman of the Byeokjin clan. He graduated from the College of Business at Seoul National University in 1968 and earned a doctorate in economics at Boston University.
After passing the higher civil service examination in 1969, he served as presidential economic secretary, director of the Budget Office, vice minister of Finance and Economy and of Agriculture, and in 1996 became the second Minister of Information and Communication; in 1996-1997 he was senior presidential secretary for the economy.
In 2009 he became president and CEO of KT and led its merger with KTF, serving as KT chairman from 2009 to 2013. He was indicted over the selection of PCS operators during his time as minister, but was acquitted by the Supreme Court in 2006.
He was presidential economic secretary in 1984-1988 and vice minister of Finance and Economy in 1994-1995 before becoming Minister of Information and Communication in 1996. He received the Order of Service Merit (Hongjo, 1987; Cheongjo, 1997).
See also the Byeokjin Yi clan page.