President Yoon Seok-yeol, who met with reporters on the 29th, left without answering a question about the scandal of profanity during his overseas tour.
In a question-and-answer session held at the presidential office in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, on the way to work, President Yoon responded to the proposal for the dismissal of Foreign Minister Park Jin promoted by the Democratic Party of Korea, saying, “Minister Park Jin is a person of outstanding ability, and he is busy working for the national interest to the extent that he is worried about his health. . I think the people will know for themselves what is right and what is wrong.”
Afterwards, there was a question about whether he would like to express his regrets regarding the scandal of profanity, but President Yoon did not answer the question and ended the question-and-answer session. President Yoon, who spoke for about 3 minutes and 35 seconds that day, spent only 34 seconds in Q&A, including the reporter’s question time. The live broadcast video of the YouTube channel ‘Yoonnik’, an official announcement of the president’s actions, was cut off before the question was properly answered.
The question-and-answer system introduced by President Yoon while emphasizing communication with the media (aka doorstepping) is becoming more and more unilateral. The number of questions that President Yoon answered was close to 10 since he took office in May, but it has decreased to three or four since July. From the 12th of last month, President Yoon made a remark on current issues and then answered one or two questions.
In all of his remarks on the same day, President Yoon announced the NSC Standing Committee meeting due to North Korea’s ballistic missile launch, the schedule for US Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to Korea, and plans to increase productivity in the industrial sector through digital advancement and build a data center in Gwangju.