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After its crushing defeat in a by-election in Seoul, the governing People Power Party (PPP) seated Ihn Yo-han — a professor at Yonsei University College of Medicine and Korea’s first special naturalized citizen — as the head of its innovation committee on Monday. It remains to be seen if the innovation czar can rescue the ailing party from its overreliance on President Yoon Suk Yeol and a critical lack of future vision. [PARK YONG-SEOK]