[Yoon Seok-yeol Elected] President Moon Speaks with President-elect Yoon in the Morning

On the 26th, when the concentration of ultrafine dust showed a 'bad' level due to stagnant air, the Blue House in Seoul appeared hazy. Photo by Moon Honam munonam@

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] President Moon Jae-in will call President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol on the 10th to have a conversation. He will also send a congratulatory flower arrangement through Chief Secretary Yoo Young-min. A meeting with the President-elect is expected to be scheduled within a few days.

According to the Blue House, President Moon is scheduled to have a phone call with President-elect Yoon sometime in the morning of the day. The exact time of the call has not yet been decided.

By convention, the phone call between the incumbent president and the president-elect usually takes place overnight immediately after the election, but in this 20th presidential election, since both sides were in a close race and Yoon's victory was confirmed in the early hours of the 10th, the call was postponed to the 10th.

President Moon will send a congratulatory flower arrangement through Chief Secretary Yoo and is expected to discuss when to meet the President-elect at that time. The last time the two met face-to-face was 21 months ago, in June 2020, when Yoon visited the Blue House to attend the Anti-Corruption Policy Council.

There is also interest in whether the meeting with the President-elect will take place just a few days after the election. President Kim Dae-jung met with President-elect Roh Moo-hyun four days after the 16th presidential election, President Roh met with President-elect Lee Myung-bak nine days after the 17th presidential election, and President Lee met with President-elect Park Geun-hye eight days after the 18th presidential election, respectively.

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