{"id":138707,"date":"2026-09-01T03:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/138707\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T03:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T03:17:11","slug":"south-koreas-top-presidential-aide-resigns-following-cabinet-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/138707\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s top presidential aide resigns following cabinet reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/south-korea?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Korea<\/a>\u2019s chief presidential policy adviser has resigned, the presidential Blue House said on Tuesday, after President <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/lee-jae-myung?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lee Jae \u200cMyung<\/a> reshuffled his cabinet and senior aides amid a drop in his approval rating.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kim Yong-beom was a key adviser to Lee on economic policy, including on housing and \u2060stock market issues.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Kim had offered to step down from the post on Monday, which oversees the administration\u2019s economic and domestic policy agenda.<\/p>\n<p>During his term, Kim had drawn criticism over the rapid introduction of single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds tied to <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/samsung-electronics?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Samsung Electronics<\/a> and SK Hynix. The products, launched in May as part of an effort to draw retail money into domestic equities, later helped amplify extreme market swings and prompted regulators to tighten investor safeguards.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">His proposal for a potential \u201ccitizen dividend\u201d funded by excess tax revenue from the AI boom also triggered public debate, and fuelled market speculation over how the government might use the windfall. Kim later said that the idea involved distributing excess tax receipts rather than tapping company profits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kim Yong-beom was a key adviser to Lee on economic policy, including on housing and \u2060stock market issues. Photo: YouTube\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/70ca32e0-e640-481e-a220-0c477554571c_d23e07f7.jpg\" title=\"Kim Yong-beom was a key adviser to Lee on economic policy, including on housing and \u2060stock market issues. Photo: YouTube\"\/>Kim Yong-beom was a key adviser to Lee on economic policy, including on housing and \u2060stock market issues. Photo: YouTube<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">President Lee had accepted Kim\u2019s \u200cresignation on Tuesday, his office said. It did not immediately disclose the reason for his resignation or name a successor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s chief presidential policy adviser has resigned, the presidential Blue House said on Tuesday, after President Lee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3888,5594,2497,31,146,24811,51266,276,112,29850,275,33,964,65348],"class_list":["post-138707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-ai-boom","tag-blue-house","tag-kim-yong-beom","tag-korea","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-myongji-university","tag-realmeter","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-seoul","tag-shin-yul","tag-sk-hynix","tag-south-korea","tag-stock-market","tag-trade-minister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}