On the afternoon of the 10th local time, President-elect Yoon Seok-yue of South Korea held a press conference at the office of the Presidential Handover Committee to announce the nomination of the first batch of cabinet members for the new South Korean government.
Yoon Seok-wook nominated National Power Party member Choo Kyung-ho as the first deputy economic prime minister and minister of finance and economics of the new government, Lee Jong-sub, former deputy secretary of the Joint Staff Headquarters, as defense minister, and former Jeju governor Won Hee-ryong as minister of land and transportation.
In addition, Yin Xiyue also announced the nominees for the positions of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Women's Family, the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Resources, and the Minister of Science, Technology, Information and Communication at a press conference on the same day.
(Headquarters reporter Tang Xin)