On the 21st, President Lee Jae-myung approved the appointment proposals for Kim Young-hoon, Minister of Employment and Labor; Kim Sung-hwan, Minister of Environment; and Jeong Eun-kyeong, Minister of Health and Welfare, as announced by the spokesperson of the Presidential Office, Kang Yu-jung.
Earlier, the National Assembly's Environment and Labor Committee and Health and Welfare Committee adopted a report on the confirmation hearings for the three candidates during a full committee meeting.
Although the confirmation report for candidate Kim Sung-hwan, an incumbent three-term lawmaker, was adopted with bipartisan agreement, the reports for candidates Kim Young-hoon and Jeong Eun-kyeong were adopted through a vote led by the Democratic Party of Korea amid opposition from the People Power Party.
With the approval of the appointment proposals for the three candidates on that day, the appointment procedures for nine of the eighteen candidates nominated as the first cabinet ministers (excluding the retained Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs) have been completed.
As of that day, the ministries that have completed the appointment of ministers are the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of Science and ICT, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of the Interior and Safety, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Environment, and Ministry of Employment and Labor.