Yoon to soon accept resignation of gender equality minister: officials
Gender Equality and Family Minister Kim Hyun-sook, left, speaks during a conference in Inha University, Incheon, west of Seoul, Feb. 13. Yonhap
President Yoon Suk Yeol is expected to soon accept the resignation offer of Gender Equality and Family Minister Kim Hyun-sook, officials said Tuesday.
Kim offered to resign in September 2023 to take responsibility for the mismanagement of the 25th World Scout Jamboree the previous month but was retained pending a replacement.
Yoon had tapped Kim Haeng, a former member of the ruling People Power Party's interim leadership panel, as the new gender equality and family minister, but she withdrew herself from consideration during the parliamentary confirmation process amid a slew of controversies.
Multiple officials at the presidential office told Yonhap News Agency on Tuesday that Yoon will soon accept the minister's resignation without naming a replacement and have the vice minister take over her duties in an acting capacity.
Abolishing the gender equality and family ministry was one of Yoon's campaign pledges. (Yonhap)