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President-elect Park Geun-hye is scheduled to meet with envoys of Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe in Seoul this Friday afternoon. Meanwhile, Park has picked her choices of
who should sit on her presidential transition team, which she may well announce before the
day's end. Kim Yeon-ji has more. The president-elect
on Friday sits down with a Japanese delegation sent by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
in her office in Seoul. Three representatives of Abe's Liberal Democratic
Party... which won the December general election on a nationalist platform... and the Japanese
ambassador to Seoul are expected to deliver a letter seeking improved relations between
the two countries. Although the Japanese delegates had asked
for an earlier meeting with president-elect Park, she turned down the request citing scheduling
issues.
Meanwhile, Park is known to have effectively completed personnel appointments for her transition
team, which will take the baton from the outgoing president Lee Myung-bak administration and
set the house in order for her. Her announcement of the line up is believed
to be imminent. In fact, some of those named to sit on the
administrative unit of Park's transition team on Thursday paid a visit to their new office
at the Korea Banking Institute. While waiting to hear from the presidential
office of Cheongwadae the results of its screening of the appointees, Park notified the individuals
who had been given the greenlight by phone on Thursday.
Once Cheongwadae completes the candidate verification process, Park is expected to release the names
of the appointees and officially launch the transition team.
Park's transition team is made up of nine sections overlooking planning and coordination,
state affairs, the economy, foreign affairs and security, employment and welfare, science
and education, welfare and women's issues. The team also has two special committees for
grand national unity and young adults. Former president of the Constitutional Court
Kim Yong-joon heads the team... and Saenuri Party lawmaker Jin Young serves as vice chairman.
Kim Yeon-ji, Arirang News.