2023-05-15 10:59:00
On the 15th, President Yoon Seok-yeol said, “There will be no replacement of ministers for the time being” regarding the rumors of a cabinet reshuffle raised on the occasion of the first anniversary of his inauguration.
President Yoon said this at a meeting of senior secretaries held at the presidential office building in Yongsan this morning, according to multiple presidential office officials. President Yoon is also known to have said, “Once he has a job, he has to watch it for two years.”
A high-ranking official in the presidential office said, “It was like a joke” for the remarks made in 2 years, and explained that it was “a principled expression meaning that there will be no reorganization to change the situation.”
Another high-ranking official said, “It’s not the mood right now (to reshuffle).” Regarding the political prospect that some ministries, such as the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, will take personnel measures, he said, “It is wrong.” ) I won’t do it unless I have to.”
This means that as President Yoon enters his second year in power, he will put weight on the stability of the cabinet. The previous government also did not reshuffle the cabinet in time for the second year in office, and a few months later, in August, the second cabinet was reshuffled.
Previously, at a cabinet meeting on the 9th, ahead of the first anniversary of his inauguration, President Yoon ordered “drastic personnel measures if an ambiguous stance is taken,” but he has also expressed his position several times that he will not conduct personnel changes to renew the atmosphere. At the cabinet meeting on the 18th of last month, President Yoon is reported to have expressed his position that “there is no cabinet reshuffle to change the situation” regarding the continued reports of cabinet reshuffles around the first anniversary of his inauguration. President Yoon is known to have asked, “There will be no cabinet reshuffle for the time being,” and “do not be swayed by useless rumors (the rumor of a cabinet reshuffle)” at the first cabinet meeting of the new year on January 3rd.
After receiving a report on the overall situation of the real estate market and the soft landing plan at the Presidential Office that afternoon, President Yoon said, “In addition to the plan for a soft landing in the real estate market, measures to alleviate the burden of the housing vulnerable, such as young people and ordinary people who are suffering from charter fraud and reverse jeonse, etc. Spokesman Lee Do-woon said that he ordered to continue to seek for
The report was attended by Deputy Prime Minister Choo Kyung-ho of Economy, Bank of Korea Governor Chang-yong Lee, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Won Hee-ryong, Financial Services Commission Chairman Joo-hyeon Kim, and Governor of the Financial Supervisory Service Bok-hyeon Lee.
Previously, President Yoon requested, “In the process of normalizing housing policies according to market principles, please make sure to establish a system for a soft landing in the real estate market.”
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