Korea announced a slate of nominations for cabinet posts and key oversight bodies on Monday, drawing on senior bureaucrats, lawmakers, legal professionals and academics in a sweeping leadership reshuffle. Hwang Jong-woo, a career civil servant, was nominated as minister of oceans and fisheries. Born in 1967 in Busan, Hwang has held several senior posts within the ministry, including as spokesperson, maritime safety director general and chief of its planning and coordination office. He currently chairs the International Cooperation Committee at the Korea Maritime Cooperation Center. The government also named four-term lawmaker Park Hong-keun as minister of planning and budget. Park, born in 1969 in South Jeolla Province, has served as floor leader of the ruling Democratic Party and previously chaired the National Assembly’s Special Committee on Budget and Accounts. He also led the policy planning subcommittee of the presidential transition team. Jung Il-yeon, a former senior judge who previously headed the Ansan branch of the Suwon District Court and served as a presiding judge at seve