Overview

• Kang Jun-wook resigned Tuesday after less than two weeks in the role of presidential secretary for national integration.
• His departure reflects mounting criticism of his March book defending former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s failed martial law attempt as a protest against political gridlock.
• Lawmakers and civil society groups had also condemned his past social media posts praising Japan’s 1910–1945 colonial rule and denying wartime forced labor.
• Presidential spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said President Lee accepted the resignation to uphold the administration’s governing principles.
• Lee’s office indicated that a conservative figure who shares the administration’s national unity philosophy will be tapped as Kang’s successor.