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The presidential office said that President Yoon Suk Yeol will skip his New Year’s press conference as he did last year and supplant it with a one-on-one interview with KBS, which will be aired Wednesday after the public broadcaster edits the exclusive interview. Political pundits link the swap to the need for the president to avoid any thorny questions from reporters about the first lady’s reception of a luxury handbag from a pastor after her husband became president. [PARK YONG-SEOK]