S. Korean President replaces 6 Cabinet ministers, including finance minister

President Yoon Suk Yeol replaced the finance minister and five other members of the Cabinet on Monday, his office said, Yonhap reports.

Choi Sang-mok, former senior presidential secretary for economic affairs, was named the new finance minister and deputy prime minister, while Kang Jung-ai, former president of Sookmyung Women's University, was named new minister for veterans affairs, according to presidential chief of staff Kim Dae-ki.

Yoon also tapped Song Mi-ryung, former senior researcher at the Korea Rural Economic Institute, for agriculture minister; Park Sang-woo, former chief of state-run housing developer Korea Land & Housing Corp., for land minister; Kang Do-hyung, president of the Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, for oceans minister; and Second Vice Foreign Minister Oh Young-ju, for SMEs minister.