Yonhap News Agency, "Dong-A Ilbo" reported: Amid high tensions on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea's National Intelligence Service director Kim Kyu-hsien and his two deputies resigned on the 26th, and was immediately approved by President Yoon Seok-yuet.

South Korean media said that Yoon Seok-yue because of dissatisfaction with the National Intelligence Service personnel management dispute and dismissed the above three people.

South Korea's presidential office said in a statement on the 26th that Yoon Seok-yuol has approved the resignation of National Intelligence Service director Kim Kyu-hyeon and two deputies to the first deputy director and the second deputy director.

The statement did not give a reason for the resignations or say why Ms. Yin agreed.

Yoon decided to appoint Hong Chang-won, a former diplomat, and Hwang Won-jin, a former official of the National Intelligence Service, as the first and second director of the agency, respectively.

The new director has not yet been confirmed, and Hong Chang-won will be in charge of the leadership of the National Intelligence Service.

An official in South Korea's presidential office said it would take some time to identify the right person, given that the NIS director must go through a parliamentary confirmation hearing.

Kim was appointed director of the National Intelligence Service in May last year. In June, the NIS was embroiled in a personnel management controversy when Yoon reversed some of the reshuffling just five days after approving it.

According to the Dong-A Ilbo, A close aide of Kim is suspected of being overly involved in personnel management and recommending people close to him for important posts or promotions.

Others say that the matter has gone beyond the extent of "influence-peddling" of Mr. A, and that those who have been recommended have problems themselves, including officials during the administrations of former presidents Moon Jae-in and Park Geun-hye.

After Yoon took office, he has "purged" former government officials, but the internal relations of the NIS are still extremely complicated.