Welfare minister refuses to return to work despite president's instruction
Social affairsSept 29, 2013
South Korea's welfare minister repeated his intention to step down Sunday in an apparent defiance of President Park Geun-hye's earlier decision to reject his resignation offer."I will not return to work," Minister of Health and Welfare Chin Young was quoted as saying by his ministry's spokesman.The remarks came only two days after the president refused to accept the minister's offer to resign over what he has called his failure to follow through on Park's pension pledge for senior citizens.The P