SEOUL -- South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has picked a Harvard-educated former ambassador to Washington as his first prime minister, sending the clearest message yet that his incoming government will move closer to the U.S.
Yoon announced on Sunday that he tapped career bureaucrat Han Duck-soo, 72, who served as prime minister from 2007 to 2008 under former President Roh Moo-hyun. Han was U.S. envoy between 2009 and 2012 in the Lee Myung-bak administration.
