Presidential office to move back to Cheong Wa Dae early next week

SEOUL, December 24 (AJP) - President Lee Jae-myung is set to move into the sprawling compound of Cheong Wa Dae in central Seoul early next week, after vacating the current presidential office in Yongsan, his officials said on Wednesday.

The relocation of the presidential office comes roughly three years and seven months after former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached earlier this year, moved it to the nondescript Defense Ministry building in Yongsan on the first day of his inauguration in May 2022.

As the presidential office completes its relocation, a symbolic flag representing the country's head of state will be raised at Cheong Wa Dae again starting next Monday.

The flag features the national flower mugunghwa or rose of Sharon at the center, flanked by two mythical phoenixes facing each other.