SEOUL, June 4 (Xinhua) -- South Korean President Lee Jae-myung named prime minister and top secretaries after being sworn in as the country's 21st president on Wednesday, according to the presidential office.
Kim Min-seok, the ruling Democratic Party's four-term lawmaker and co-chair of Lee's presidential campaign team, was nominated to lead the first cabinet of the Lee government.
The prime minister nomination requires approval from the Democratic Party-controlled National Assembly following a confirmation hearing.
Lee appointed Kang Hoon-sik, the ruling party's three-term lawmaker, as presidential chief of staff while naming Wi Sung-lac, a career diplomat who was elected the first-term Democratic Party lawmaker last April, as top presidential national security advisor.
The president appointed former Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok as chief of the National Intelligence Service and Hwang In-kwon, former four-star army general, as head of the presidential security service.
Lee launched his single five-year term with an oath of office in the parliamentary building earlier in the day. ■
