Former LG Household & Health Care (LG H&H) Vice Chairman and CEO Cha Suk-yong, who stepped down late last year after leading the cosmetics and household products maker for 18 years, was recommended as a new nonexecutive director of KT&G by an activist hedge fund, which is at odds with the tobacco product maker s management over the spin-off of Korea Ginseng Corp. (KGC).