New Year’s report, Ministry of Finance starts today
Discussion forum where the president directly explains
New Year’s conference may not be held separately
On the 27th, the list of pardons will be announced at the end of the year
Including MB… Possibility of excluding Myeong-Sook Han
▲ President Yoon Seok-yeol visits the booth of the Space Center at the Youth Work Experience Center to experience communication prior to the International Skills Olympic Team encouragement luncheon held at Korea Job World in Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 16th. 2022.12.16 Presidential Office Communication Photo Reporters
It is expected that the venue for the first New Year’s work report of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration, which will begin with the Ministry of Strategy and Finance on the 21st, will not stay only at the Yongsan Presidential Office, but will be strengthened.
An official from the presidential office told the Seoul Shinmun on the 20th that “various places for business reports by department are being reviewed.” As the new year’s business report will be held at the site two years after the 2021 business report, which was replaced by written or video conference due to the spread of Corona 19, each ministry is moving more busily. It is said that each ministry is reviewing the best place to maximize the policy direction and meaning of 2023. For example, the Ministry of Science and ICT, which was the ‘first hitter’ in the 2020 New Year’s work report during the Moon Jae-in administration, held an event at the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) located in the Daedeok Research Complex and put the message of ‘innovation and growth through science and technology’ to the fore. there is a bar
According to the Presidential Office, the joint business report of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, and the Ministry of Science and Technology scheduled for early next week will be held with the keyword ‘future food’. It will be held around 11 episodes until the middle. It is conducted in the form of a report to the public, and the general public, who are policy consumers, also participate.
However, the Presidential Office explained that during the Ministry of Strategy and Finance’s work report, which is held concurrently with the Emergency Economic and People’s Livelihood Meeting and the National Economic Advisory Meeting, the National Economic Advisory Committee, composed of economists and private experts, effectively serves as a ‘national panel’.
There is a prospect that the presidential office may not hold a separate presidential New Year’s meeting as President Yoon Seok-yeol (face) will provide a place to directly explain and discuss policy-specific reform tasks to the public at the site of the business report. Just as the government task inspection meeting on the 15th lasted for 156 minutes, far exceeding the originally scheduled 100 minutes, it means that President Yoon does not feel the need to hold a New Year’s conference in a situation where comments from attendees are expected to pour out in the New Year’s business report. In a meeting with young people at the Blue House guesthouse that day, President Yoon expressed his intention to strongly promote reforms for future generations, such as labor reform.
Meanwhile, it is known that there is a high possibility that President Yoon will preside over a regular cabinet meeting on the 27th and confirm the list of special pardons at the end of the year. While this end-of-year pardon is scheduled to be finalized mainly for politicians who were excluded from the last Liberation Day special envoy, the pardon for former President Lee Myung-bak, whose sentence execution ends on the 28th, is a fait accompli. On the other hand, it is said that the policy of ‘no’ has been set for the ‘pardon for unpaid fines’ for former Prime Minister Han Myung-sook, which is raised by some in the political world. Regarding former Prime Minister Han, who was reinstated together during the pardon of former President Park Geun-hye last year, a passport official said, “It is a principle that pardon is difficult for those who have not paid the fine,” and “there is no choice but to pay the fine prescribed by law.”
Reporter Ahn Seok