▲ Kim In-cheol, former president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, nominated as deputy prime minister for society
President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol selected Dong-hoon Han, vice president of the Judicial Research and Training Institute (Chief Prosecutor) as the first candidate for the Minister of Justice today (13th).
Kim In-cheol, former president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, was nominated as deputy prime minister and education minister, Park Jin as foreign minister, and Kwon Young-se as unification minister.
Lee Sang-min, former vice chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, was nominated as the Minister of Public Administration and Security, Han Hwa-jin, Honorary Research Fellow at the Korea Environmental Research Institute as the Environment Minister, Cho Seung-hwan, former Director of the Korea Institute of Oceans and Fisheries Science and Technology Promotion, as the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries, and Rep. Lee Young as the Minister of SMEs and Startups.
Kim Dae-gi, former chief of policy affairs at the Blue House, was appointed as the chief of staff to the president.
President-elect Yoon announced the second sculptural appointment plan with this content at the press conference of the transition committee in Tongui-dong, Seoul at 2 pm today.
A number of candidates for the minister, including a candidate who was unexpectedly appointed as the Minister of Justice, unexpectedly participated in the interview.
A candidate nominated for the Justice Minister is considered to be one of the closest people to the investigation of the SK accounting fraud case, the presidential election slush fund case, the Hyundai Motor corruption case, the KEB sale case, and the Choi Soon-sil government nongdan case during Yoon's tenure as prosecutor.