SEOUL, 16 April, 2021 (TON): On Friday, the South Korean President Moon Jae-in nominated former Interior Minister Kim Boo-kyum as the new Prime Minister during a cabinet reshuffle, the presidential Blue House said.
If the nomination is approved in the parliamentary confirmation hearings, Kim will become the third Prime Minister of the Moon government, which was inaugurated in May 2017.
The President also replaced five other Ministers.
However, the cabinet reshuffle came after Moon's ruling Democratic Party was routed in the 7 April mayoral by-elections for the capital Seoul and the second-biggest city of Busan.
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