Yoon names last remaining 2 Cabinet ministers

Education Minister nominee Park Soon-ae, left, and Welfare Minister nominee Kim Seung-hee / Yonhap

President Yoon Suk-yeol named new nominees for education and welfare ministers Thursday ― both women ― after earlier nominees withdrew following allegations of irregularities and ethical lapses.

Park Soon-ae, a former lawmaker, was named education minister while Kim Seung-hee, a professor of the Graduate School of Public Administration at Seoul National University, was named welfare minister.

Earlier in the day, a senior presidential official said Yoon had planned to pick women as his new nominees, as part of his efforts to encourage the professional advancement of women. (Yonhap)