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Yoon outlines initiatives and issues NFT based on them

A total of 110 initiative were mentioned. The transition team estimates that an additional 209 trillion won will needed, over and above the existing budget, to achieve these goals.

2022.5.3

A lantern street festival passes by Bosingak Belfry in central Seoul on Saturday as a pre-celebration event for Buddha's Birthday, which falls on May 8 this year. The lantern street festival was held for the first time since 2019 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. [NEWS1]

Korea set to lift mask mandate as Sunday figure drops below 40,000

Korea will lift its outdoor mask rules from Monday, a year and six months after being implemented.

2022.5.1

Yoon Suk-yeol's government to 'fully compensate' small businesses

According to transition team estimates, small businesses lost a total of 54 trillion won ($42 billion) in revenue as a result of government social distancing regulations. Approximately 5.51 million shops and businesses will be eligible.

2022.4.28

Ahn Cheol-soo, chief of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's transition team, announces a 100-day roadmap to cope with the pandemic at the committee's office in Seoul on Wednesday. [POOL PHOTO]

Tug of war over outdoor mask rule

The outdoor mask-wearing rule could be lifted soon — or not so soon.

2022.4.27

Lee Yong-soo, a ″comfort woman″ survivor, visits the presidential transition team office in Tongui-dong, central Seoul, Thursday to urge referring the Japanese military’s wartime sexual slavery issue to the United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) and to ask to join President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s delegation to Tokyo next week. [YONHAP]

'Comfort woman' survivor gets transition team cold shoulder

Lee Yong-soo, a "comfort woman" survivor, visited President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's transition team office Thursday to recommend a resolution to the Japanese military's wartime sexual slavery issue by referring it to a UN committee on torture.

2022.4.21

Ahn Cheol-soo, chairman of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s transition team, is missing from a meeting of the special committee on Covid-19 response held at their office in Samcheong-dong, central Seoul, Thursday. Ahn canceled all public activities that day. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Political 'bromance' between Yoon and Ahn crumbles

The alliance between President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol and software mogul-turned-politician Ahn Cheol-soo is crumbling just 36 days after the election.

2022.4.14

Transition team seeks to modify carbon neutrality plans, discard nuclear phase-out policy

The transition team's push to modify carbon neutrality plans of the current Moon Jae-in government will likely include reversal of its nuclear phase-out policy and changes in energy mix, officials said Wednesday.

2022.4.13

Lee Yong-ho, chief of the presidential transition team's subcommittee for political, judicial and administrative affairs, announces plans to scrap the Korean age system in a press briefing in Tongui-dong, central Seoul, Monday. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Yoon wants to clear confusion on Koreans' ages

President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol's transition team said Monday that it plans to change the way Koreans count ages, which generally adds at least a year to the international way of counting.

2022.4.11

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol waves to the crowd at the Andong Central New Market in Andong, kicking off a two-day visit to the North Gyeongsang region Monday. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Yoon takes victory lap in conservative stronghold

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol started a two-day visit to North Gyeongsang Monday and was expected to meet with former President Park Geun-hye in her hometown of Daegu Tuesday.

2022.4.11

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, center, announces eight Cabinet appointments in a press conference at the transition team's office in Tongui-dong, central Seoul, Sunday afternoon. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Yoon picks half of his Cabinet

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol announced eight Cabinet nominations including People Power Party (PPP) Rep. Choo Kyung-ho as finance minister Sunday.

2022.4.10

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