Lee names new trade minister week after predecessor’s dismissal

President Lee Jae Myung named veteran trade bureaucrat Park Jung-sung as the country’s new trade minister Friday, as Seoul navigates sensitive tariff and investment negotiations with Washington. Park, who has served as deputy minister for trade at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources, has spent nearly three decades in trade and commerce policy, according to Cheong Wa Dae. His appointment comes after former Trade Minister Yeo Han-koo was dismissed on Saturday, creating an unexpected vaca