Minister of SMEs and Startups Han Seong-sook, the prime minister nominee, speaks at an event at the National Assembly on April 16. [NEWS1]
President Lee Jae Myung nominated Han Seong-sook, minister of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and startups, as his next prime minister to help Korea's AI transformation and to aid in the achievement of balanced regional growth, the Blue House announced Sunday.
If confirmed by the National Assembly, Han, a former Naver CEO, would become the Lee administration's first woman prime minister. She will also become Korea's second female prime minister in two decades since Han Myeong-sook, who served in the post from 2006 to 2007 under the liberal Roh Moo-hyun government.
"Based on her experience as the head of an IT company and as minister of SMEs and startups, we expect her to be the right person to flawlessly complete the great AI transformation, a task of our times, and to lead the growth of the entire country and not just a select few," Kang Hoon-sik, presidential chief of staff, said in a press briefing announcing Han Seong-sook's nomination at the Blue House in central Seoul.
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