South Korea’s Moon picks second Justice Minister after withdraws

South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday made a second attempt at appointing a Justice Minister after his earlier choice withdrew over questions about ethics and views on women.

A month-and-a-half after winning a snap election, Mr Moon is still trying to form his Cabinet. Whoever fills the Justice Minister’s post will have a key role overseeing Mr Moon’s promise of legal reforms following the impeachment of his predecessor, Park Geun-hye, over a corruption scandal. His nomination of Park Sangki, a legal scholar, came 11 days after the earlier candidate, Ahn Kyong-whan, withdrew over controversies that when he was a young man he had forged the seal of a woman he was dating on a marriage licence application.