Kwak Pom-gi

Kwak Pom-gi (born 1939) is a North Korean government official.

After graduating from Huichon Industrial College, he began his career in 1983 as a machine factory manager, progressing through the machinery bureau of the Korean Workers' Party, becoming a cadre candidate of the party's Central Committee in 1993. He has been Vice-Premier of the government from 1998 to 2010, and is a member of the Secretariat of the Korean Worker's Party. He is described as a "technocrat" in the North Korean leadership.

In October 2003, Kwak gave a speech celebrating the Ryugyong Jong Ju Yong Indoor Stadium at the Mansudae Art Theatre, which is an indoor stadium built on the bank of the River Potong.

In August 2006, Kwak, with Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov, was at the opening of the first Russian Orthodox Church in Pyongyang, North Korea. The church was opended to improve the development of Russian-North Korean relations according to Korean Orthodox Church Committee Chairman Ho Il Jin. The North Korean government would "successfully administer" the church,which was built to hold 500 people.