Yoon Requests Submission of Hearing Reports for Lee Jin-sook and Kim Byung-hwan by Today... Likely to Appoint Tomorrow

President Yoon Suk-yeol is presiding over a Cabinet meeting at the Presidential Office building in Yongsan, Seoul, on the 30th. [Image source=Yonhap News]

President Yoon Suk-yeol approved the request to send the personnel hearing result reports for nominee Lee Jin-sook for Chairperson of the Korea Communications Commission and nominee Kim Byung-hwan for Chairperson of the Financial Services Commission on the 30th, the presidential office announced.

President Yoon set the deadline for submitting the reports on the two nominees as the 30th.

Previously, the National Assembly's Science, Technology, Information and Broadcasting Committee and the Political Affairs Committee failed to adopt the personnel hearing result reports for nominee Lee and nominee Kim.

The president may request the resubmission of the hearing reports within 10 days if the National Assembly fails to adopt the hearing reports.

If the National Assembly does not comply with the request, the president can appoint the nominees without the hearing reports starting from the following day.

President Yoon is expected to proceed with the appointments of nominee Lee and others as early as the 31st.

The Korea Communications Commission currently has no standing commissioners as former acting Chairperson (Vice Chairperson) Lee Sang-in voluntarily resigned amid opposition parties' impeachment efforts.

Since the presidential office and the ruling party need at least two commissioners to appoint the board members of public broadcasters, they are likely to expedite the appointment of a successor to former Vice Chairperson Lee Sang-in.

Kim Tae-gyu, a former judge and current Vice Chairperson of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, is among those mentioned as a candidate for Vice Chairperson.

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