New ROK Presidential Office Nearing Completion
Remember all the naysayers saying how moving the Presidential office so quickly could not be done and was going to cause a security gap? Well it appears all the criticism was overblown and instead it was a lot of people not wanting to go through change:
![President Yoon Suk-yeol takes part in an event celebrating small and medium-sized businesses on the lawn in front of the presidential office in Yongsan District, central Seoul, on May 25. [NEWS1]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/06/07/b90a038e-6ec9-4c67-8698-c9095ec2795d.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
President Yoon Suk-yeol is expected to move into his newly remodeled presidential office in Yongsan District, central Seoul, as soon as June 19.
The presidential office’s new moniker and emblem will be revealed on the day of the move.Since the launch of his administration on May 10, Yoon has been working from a temporary office on the fifth floor of the Defense Ministry building in Yongsan. Remodeling work throughout the 10-floor building is underway, and Yoon will move to the second floor, his permanent office, as soon as it’s complete around June 19 or 20.
Joong Ang Ilbo
The second floor will also have the office of Yoon’s chief of staff, small and large reception rooms and some security services. The third floor will be occupied by presidential senior secretaries, and other floors will be used by the Presidential Security Service, secretariat, other aides and a new public-private committee. The press center is located on the first floor.
The fifth floor office, where Yoon’s summit with U.S. President Joe Biden was held on May 21, will be converted into a multipurpose reception room.
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Remember all the naysayers saying how moving the Presidential office so quickly could not be done and was going to cause a security gap? Well it appears all the criticism was overblown and instead it was a lot of people not wanting to go through change:
Well it was obvious that GI Korea was rooting for President Yoon and his proposed move to the Defense Ministry building in Yongsan, regardless of the costs involved.
But I wonder.
Had Moon done the same thing, would he have praised Moon for pushing change or criticized him for uprooting the Command and Control of the Korean military so that he could put his office in the Defense Ministry building?
And I also wonder how can moving the Presidential Office to the Defense Ministry building be defined as change?
It’s like the White House telling the DOD and the other related departments to move out of the Pentagon so that it can set up shop there.
How can that be change?
And by change it is obvious that we are not talking about a simple change of buildings, which I think Fried Chicken would grab on to and spew out his rambling nonsense. 😀
@Korean Person, actually I am a supporter of moving the capitol to Sejong City further south outside of artillery range. If Moon would have done that I would have definitely supported it. The move to the Defense Ministry does not change that security dynamic since it is still in a vulnerable location.