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| Park Jin, left, and Lee Sang-min / Korea Times file and Yonhap |
President Yoon Suk-yeol appointed Foreign Minister Park Jin and Interior Minister Lee Sang-min, Thursday, a presidential official said, amid a delay in their National Assembly confirmation hearings.
The appointments will help meet the quorum for Yoon's first Cabinet meeting set for later in the day.
Park is a lawmaker of the ruling People Power Party, and Lee is a former vice chief of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission. (Yonhap)
