DAPA chief tapped as justice minister

Lee Yong-cheol, the current head of South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration, was nominated as justice minister Friday, marking his second appointment to a senior government post under President Lee Jae Myung. Born in June 1960 in Sunchang, North Jeolla Province, the 66-year-old nominee graduated from Yonsei University with a law degree in 1982 and passed the national bar examination in 1989. Lee's ties to the presidential office date back to the Roh Moo-hyun administration, a pr