The Blue House said on the 29th that it had not offered the position of prime minister to former lawmaker Yoo Seong-min.
That afternoon, the Blue House issued a notice from the Spokesperson's Office refuting a report that President Lee Jae-myung had tried to recruit Yoo as prime minister early in the administration.
Yoo, a centrist-conservative politician who served in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th National Assembly, ran in the 19th presidential election in 2017 as the Bareun Party candidate but lost.
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