KCC chief booted from Cabinet meetings for 'politically biased remarks'

President Lee Jae Myung has decided to exclude Korea Communications Commission Chairperson Lee Jin-sook from future Cabinet meetings based on a conclusion by the Board of Audit and Inspection that found she made "politically biased remarks."

2025-07-09

North holds Cabinet meeting over economic issues

North Korea has convened a plenary meeting of the Cabinet as a follow-up to the latest key party meeting in an effort to inspect the implementation of the country's five-year economic development plan, state media reported Tuesday.

2025-07-08

Top office names chief justice of Constitutional Court in latest round of appointments

President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday nominated Kim Sang-hwan, a former Supreme Court justice, as the chief of the Constitutional Court.

2025-06-26

Lee Jae Myung calls for peace regime on Korean Peninsula during Cabinet meeting ahead of war anniversary

President Lee Jae Myung stressed that national security is directly linked to economic issues as he called for building a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula to ensure enduring stability in a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

2025-06-24

Slew of Cabinet nominations consolidate DP authority, tap outside experts

In his first major Cabinet announcement Monday, President Lee Jae Myung named 11 ministerial nominees that blend party loyalists with unconventional outsiders — including Democratic Party lawmakers and several figures from outside the ruling bloc.

2025-06-23

Top office set to wrap up public recommendations for ministers, vice ministers

The presidential office said it will wrap up a weeklong process to receive public recommendations for Cabinet ministers, vice ministers and chiefs of state-run agencies Monday.

2025-06-16

Cabinet approves special probes into ex-President Yoon, his wife

The Cabinet on Tuesday approved bills to appoint special counsels to probe a botched martial law bid by former President Yoon Suk Yeol and corruption allegations against his wife, former first lady Kim Keon Hee.

2025-06-10

President Lee urges Yoon's holdover ministers to 'put the people first' during inaugural Cabinet meeting

Speaking at the presidential office in Seoul’s Yongsan District — a location also chosen by Yoon to serve as the seat of government in 2022 — Lee urged members of the holdover Cabinet to “put the people first and do [their] best.”

2025-06-05

Lee Jae-myung to call for continuity and discipline in first Cabinet meeting

President Lee Jae-myung will convene his first Cabinet meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday at the presidential office in Yongsan, marking his second day in office.