Yoon Suk-yeol said The Blue House was ‘a symbol of imperial power’ but critics have highlighted costs and safety concerns
Yoon Suk-yeol said the Blue House was ‘a symbol of imperial power’ but critics have highlighted costs and safety concerns
He said the building, located at the foot of a mountain on a site once used by the Japanese during their 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean peninsula, was a “symbol of imperial power” that would be opened to the public as a sign of his commitment to a more open and democratic presidency.Successive South Korean presidents have lived and worked there since the country became a republic in 1948.
Yoon said the theory had been cooked up by his political opponents to discredit him. “The Democratic party seems to be more interested in shamans than I am,” he told reporters after his election victory on 9 March, adding that he had considered several locations for his new office and residence. As Yoon was being sworn in on Tuesday, members of the public who had drawn lots to visit the Blue House were divided over his decision.
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