Presidential Office: "No Consideration Given to Appointments of Park Young-sun, Yang Jeong-cheol, etc." (Update)

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On the 17th, the Presidential Office denied some media reports that former Minister of SMEs and Startups Park Young-sun and former Democratic Research Institute Director Yang Jeong-cheol were being strongly considered for the positions of Prime Minister and Chief of Staff, respectively.

The spokesperson office of the Presidential Office stated in a press release that day, "The appointments of former Minister Park Young-sun and former Director Yang Jeong-cheol reported by some media outlets have not been considered."

Earlier, some media outlets, citing a Presidential Office official, reported that President Yoon Seok-yeol was strongly considering former Minister Park and former close aide of former President Moon Jae-in, former Director Yang, as successors to Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and Chief of Staff Lee Gwan-seop, who recently tendered their resignations as part of a personnel reshuffle.