Kim Gang-lip (Korean: 김강립; Hanja: 金剛立; born 9 November 1965) is a South Korean government official served as Minister of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) from 2020 to 2022 and Vice Minister of Health and Welfare (MOHW) from 2019 to 2020 under President Moon Jae-in.
At MOHW, Kim led departments responsible for various policy areas spanning from public health to pension system.
[3][4] He is widely known to the public for daily 11am briefing on COVID-19 virus containment he held while serving as the deputy head of MOHW.
[5] In a MFDS, MOHW and KDCA's joint briefing to the president in January 2021, Kim reaffirmed that vaccine approval, which his ministry is responsible for, will be completed in February 2021.
[8][9] In a YouTube-TV show, Giant Peng TV, Kim, then deputy head of Ministry of Health and Welfare, nicknamed himself "strong man.