Major presidential candidates are set to finalize the lineup of their campaign teams this week as they strive to secure figures influential and popular enough to win over voters outside of their traditional support bases.

Rep. Moon Jae-in of the main opposition Democratic United Party on Wednesday appointed a number of celebrity artists and civic activists to his camp.

Rep. Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party took the day off for last-minute deliberation in deciding her election committee chief.

Moon’s office presented a total of 15 members for his “Citizen Camp,” a civic society-based campaigning body.

The list included popular composer and producer Kim Hyeong-seok and poet Ahn Do-hyun, as well as party figures such as Rep. Lee Hack-young and former supreme councilor Moon Sung-keun, according to officials.

The Citizen Camp is one of Moon’s three campaign arms, along with the Democratic Camp and the Future Camp, which respectively incorporate DUP members and policy advisors.

It was introduced to boost the citizens’ voluntary participation in the upcoming election and to reach out to relatively neutral voters.

Former state broadcast announcer Yoo Jung-ah and former Seoul Sinmun cartoonist Baek Moo-hyun have been appointed as spokespersons.

In contrast to such extensive personnel measures, however, Moon filled his secretary’s office and strategy team with his closest aides, who were mostly former government officials of the Roh Moo-hyun administration.

Former presidential secretaries Rep. Yoon Hu-duk and Kim Kyung-soo were appointed as Moon’s personal assistants, and former Cheong Wa Dae spokesperson Jung Tae-ho as the camp’s strategy chief.

“It is only natural that the secretary office should include those who are most closely acquainted with the candidate,” said an official of Moon’s camp.

“The appointment does not hinder Moon’s earlier pledge to embrace a diversity of people in his election committee.”

The former presidential chief of staff, after being confirmed as his party’s sole presidential candidate, promised to form a “melting pot” campaign team in an attempt to dispel concerns over factional feuds.

Meanwhile, Moon’s conservative rival Park remained reclusive on Wednesday, deliberating on choosing her election panel chief.

“Park will meet with various people today to discuss the appointment of her election camp leader,” said Rep. Lee Ju-young, her public communications director.

“The final list may be confirmed as early as within the week.”

Independent candidate Ahn Cheol-soo kicked off his three-day trip to the country’s southwestern Honam region in a move to boost his ratings in the left-wing party’s longtime stronghold.

By Bae Hyun-jung (tellme@heraldcorp.com)