President Yoon Suk Yeol is expected to name a new presidential chief of staff, Sunday at the earliest, in what would be his first move to overhaul state affairs after a resounding defeat in last week s General Election, sources at the presidential office said Saturday.
All attention is on President Yoon Suk Yeol s pick to replace Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who offered to resign as a gesture of accountability for the ruling People Power Party s (PPP) crushing defeat in the general elections on Wednesday.
Opposition lawmakers called on President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday to personally apologize for his party s defeat in this week s parliamentary elections and hold a meeting with oppos.
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The Yoon Suk Yeol government will officially designate July 14 as a day to commemorate North Korean defectors, symbolically coinciding with the day when the law ensuring support for their resettlement in South Korean society took effect in 1997. South Korean Unification Minister Kim Young-ho made the announcement about the official designation on Wednesday while attending the inauguration ceremony of the Special Comm.