Yoon Suk Yeol
Yoon Suk Yeol is a South Korean politician and attorney who is the 13th and current president of South Korea since 2022. A member of the People Power Party, he previously served as the prosecutor general of South Korea from 2019 to 2021 under his presidential predecessor Moon Jae-In.
Some of the key events about Yoon Suk Yeol
- 1994Passed the bar exam on the first attempt
- 2008Led the investigation into the "BBK stock price manipulation" scandal as a prosecutor
- 2013Successfully prosecuted the National Intelligence Service's online comments manipulation case
- 2019Served as Prosecutor General of South Korea
- 2021Resigned from the position of Prosecutor General to enter politics
- 2021Joined the conservative People Power Party
- 2021Faced criticism for suggesting that poor people should be content with "poor quality food"
- 2022Won the People Power Party's presidential primary
- 2022Elected as the 20th President of South Korea
- 2022Pledged to strengthen South Korea's alliance with the United States
- 2022Sparked controversy by proposing to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family
- 2022Criticized for appointing a justice minister who had been previously accused of stock manipulation
- 2022Faced backlash for relocating the presidential office, which was seen as unnecessarily expensive
- 2022Accused of nepotism for appointing relatives and close associates to government positions
- 2022Criticized for his handling of the Itaewon Halloween crowd crush disaster
- 2023Improved relations with Japan through a summit meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida
- 2023Faced protests over his decision to compensate forced labor victims without Japanese involvement
- 2023Criticized for suggesting longer working hours to address South Korea's low birth rate
- 2023Faced backlash for comments perceived as downplaying Japan's wartime atrocities
- 2023Criticized for proposing to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 12 years old
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