By Jenny Lee ( September 10, 2025, 02:10 GMT | Comment) -- Just four months after taking office, the Lee Jae Myung administration has unveiled a sweeping plan to remake South Korea’s bureaucracy, setting the stage for one of the most consequential reorganizations in decades. Framed as a bid to break up concentrated ministerial power and prepare the state for challenges from artificial intelligence to climate change, the blueprint, unveiled Sept. 7 and requiring legislative changes reaches deep into the machinery of economic management, financial regulation, prosecutorial authority and media oversightJust four months after taking office, the Lee Jae Myung administration has unveiled a sweeping plan to remake South Korea’s bureaucracy, setting the stage for one of the most consequential reorganizations in decades....
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