{"id":50444,"date":"2024-04-13T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-korean-prime-minister-and-senior-presidential-advisors-to-resign-after\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T09:04:26","slug":"south-korean-prime-minister-and-senior-presidential-advisors-to-resign-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-korean-prime-minister-and-senior-presidential-advisors-to-resign-after\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean Prime Minister and senior presidential advisors to resign after legislative election defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Associated Press reported on April 12, 2024, that all of them have submitted their resignation requests to President Yoon, but it is still unknown whether he will accept them.<\/p>\n<p>In the elections held on April 10, 2024, the opposition Democratic Party and another allied party won 175 out of 300 seats.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling People Power Party and another affiliated party won 108 seats in the legislature. This is a setback as the standing of the country&#8217;s President largely depends on the majority support from their representatives in this body.<\/p>\n<p>President Yoon will continue his term until 2027, but losing the majority in the legislature will hinder his administration&#8217;s agenda, as opposition parties may put more pressure on him than before.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-65695\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/webp\/han-1c77e.webp\" alt=\"Han has announced that he will resign from the position of Prime Minister.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Prime Minister of South Korea, Han Duck-soo, and senior advisors to President Yoon Suk Yeol have all announced their intentions to resign following their party&#8217;s defeat in the legislative elections.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000065696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[3112],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-50444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homenews","byline-esther-muhozi"],"bylines":[{"id":3112,"name":"Esther Muhozi","slug":"esther-muhozi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":3112,"name":"Esther Muhozi","slug":"esther-muhozi","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000065696,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/han-1c77e.webp","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/han-1c77e.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/han-1c77e.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/han-1c77e.webp","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/han-1c77e.webp","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/han-1c77e.webp","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000065696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50444"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=50444"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=50444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}