SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The transition team of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol held a disbandment ceremony Friday, ending a 50-day run marked by power struggles with the outgoing administration over everything from relocation of the presidential office to prosecution reforms. The committee was launched nine days after Yoon won the March 9 presidential election. [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The transition team of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol on Wednesday slammed the government for prematurely lifting all COVID-19 social distancing restrictions. In a statement read by a spokesperson, transition team Chairman Ahn Cheol-soo said many health workers are concerned the removal of all restrictions at once will cause the public [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team has been considering legalizing tattooing by nonmedical professionals, an official at the team said Wednesday, as tattoos are increasingly popular among young people. In South Korea, tattoo artists operate illegally because tattooing is currently governed by the Medical Service Act that only allows those [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The transition team of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said Monday it will push to scrap the “Korean age” system to reduce the social cost of determining a person’s age in multiple ways. In South Korea, three age systems are currently in use. The most commonly used system is the so-called [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Officials of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team on Saturday visited Hybe, the agency of K-pop sensation BTS, without discussing the issue of military service exemption. “There was no mention (of military exemption for the members),” presidential transition committee chief Ahn Cheol-soo told reporters after his visit. “The issue is something that [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The transition team of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said Wednesday it will scrap the curfew on business hours once the spread of COVID-19 passes its peak. South Korea has enforced strict business restrictions through most of the pandemic, including caps on the size of private gatherings and curfews for restaurants, [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Members of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team met with leaders of a disabled advocacy group organizing daily rush-hour subway protests and promised to look into their demand for mobility rights. The society, welfare and culture subcommittee members held talks with representatives of the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) as [...]