Agency. South Korean President Lee Jae-myung named the prime minister and top secretaries after being sworn in as the country’s 21st president on Wednesday, according to the president’s office.
Kim Min-seok, a four-term lawmaker from the ruling Democratic Party and co-chair of Lee’s presidential campaign team, was nominated to lead lee’s government’s first cabinet.
After the confirmation hearing, the prime minister’s nomination needs approval from the Democratic Party-controlled National Assembly.
Lee appointed three-term ruling party lawmaker Kang Hun-sik as the president’s top official, and in April appointed first-term Democratic lawmaker-elect career diplomat Y Sung-lak as the top presidential national security adviser.
The president appointed former unification minister Lee Jong-seok as head of the National Intelligence Service and former four-star army chief Huang In-kwon as head of the presidential security service.
Lee began his single five-year term by taking the oath of office at the parliamentary building earlier in the day.
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