The presidential workplace mentioned Monday that President Yoon Suk Yeol’s doable solo assembly with ruling Individuals Energy Celebration (PPP) chief Han Dong-hoon wants a separate session, after Han requested it on the event of Yoon’s dinner assembly with the PPP management this week.
Yoon will maintain a dinner assembly with Han and different PPP leaders Tuesday to debate the federal government’s medical reform plan. Individually from the group dinner, Han requested a solo assembly with Yoon on the identical day.
The dinner gathering was initially deliberate for late August, nevertheless it was postponed after Han brazenly known as for holding off the deliberate hike within the medical faculty admissions quota for 2026 to assist resolve the protracted docs’ walkout in a departure from Yoon’s stance.
“Tomorrow’s dinner assembly is designed to encourage the brand new PPP management. Yoon’s doable solo assembly with Han is a matter that wants a separate session,” an official on the presidential workplace advised reporters.
The official mentioned such a solo assembly won’t essentially be held Tuesday, including that the presidential workplace will search to have consultations on the difficulty.
Individuals in Tuesday’s dinner gathering may even embody PPP flooring chief Choo Kyung-ho and different members of the PPP’s Supreme Council and presidential chief of workers Chung Jin-suk and different senior secretaries.
Han has been thought of certainly one of Yoon’s closest confidants throughout their time as prosecutors, however their relationship has soured due largely to variations over the way to deal with first girl Kim Keon Hee’s acceptance of a luxurious purse and different delicate points.
“If it might be tough this time, I believe there’s a must have such a (solo) assembly on the earliest date,” Han advised reporters.
Requested why he requested a separate assembly with Yoon, Han mentioned, “There is a vital subject that’s tough to speak about publicly. We’re in a state of affairs the place the dialogue of the matter is critical.”
The PPP chief apparently sees the necessity to have candid discussions with Yoon over the medical faculty quota hike plan in a bid to swiftly launch a joint consultative physique involving the federal government, rival events and the medical group.
The federal government and the ruling celebration earlier proposed the medical group be a part of a consultative physique to debate the federal government’s medical reform plan that facilities on elevating the medical faculty admissions quota to round 2,000 yearly for the following 5 years or so.
The presidential workplace mentioned the federal government “stays versatile” on the quota for 2026 and ahead, and is open to discussing “scientifically grounded and cheap proposals introduced ahead by the medical group.”
