The Tamesis
December 23, 2025
Seoul— The address southern Oriental Governmental Royal residence has actually altered once more, returning from Yongsan Area to Cheong Wa Dae after 3 years and 7 months.
The step will certainly activate a collection of movings, consisting of the return of Protection Division personnel that shed their tasks as an outcome of the preliminary moving.
However Head of state Lee Jae-myung’s go back to heaven Home, likewise called heaven Home, is greater than simply a logistical reset.
It has actually restored an old, unsettled concern: whether Cheong Wa Dae can supply management or separate the head of state from the general public– a concern that has actually sustained initiatives to leave.
Presently, the procedure is well in progress. On Monday early morning, heaven Home held an everyday instruction with journalism corps at heaven Home, the very first because May 2022.
Cheong Wa Dae claimed that beginning Monday, all governmental instructions will certainly be kept in Chunqiu Structure, and the instruction space made use of prior to the moving has to do with 500 meters far from the major hall.
It is among several adjustments in the weeks-long moving procedure that started on Dec. 8, a day after Principal of Team Kang Hoon-sik introduced prepare for Mr. Lee and his assistants to “return to where the head of state as soon as was, and where the head of state must be.”
Some Cheong Wa Dae personnel have actually been transferred in advance of the arrival of the governmental press corps on Monday. The whole procedure is anticipated to be finished by the end of this year, yet Blue Home has actually not yet validated when Lee Myung-bak will certainly begin operating in the restored governmental workplace.
Heaven Home claimed that Lee Myung-bak’s job area will certainly be situated generally hall of heaven Home and Yeoming Hall. A Cheong Wa Dae authorities included that this would certainly place the head of state’s work spaces in the exact same structure with those of his assistants – principal of personnel Kang Hoon-sik, National Safety and security Company principal Wi Sung-rok and principal assistant for nationwide plan Kim Yong-beom – enabling closer interaction.
Heaven Home mentioned that the palace in heaven Home situated on the eastern side of the major hall is still under remodelling, which implies that the governmental palace might be relocated to heaven Home in the very first fifty percent of 2026.
Because the very first Head of state of South Korea, Syngman Rhee, pertained to power in 1948, it has historic relevance as the seat of the governmental royal residence in the contemporary background of South Korea, and was called heaven Home in 1960.
With a vast historical royal residence facility dividing heaven Home from significant roadways and public squares, some state the place ranges the head of state from the general public, particularly after militants were continuously averted throughout Park Geun-hye’s management.
Park Geun-hye’s follower, Head of state Moon Jae-in, has actually vowed to relocate the governmental workplace to the opposite of the Gwanghwamun royal residence, the website of demonstrations that brought about her impeachment. However he deserted the strategy after safety and security problems were increased.
Yoon repeated his proposition to transfer his workplace and compelled with a moving strategy prior to taking workplace, this time around to the head office of the Ministry of National Protection in Yongsan Area, 6 kilometers southern of Cheong Wa Dae and 4 kilometers from Gwanghwamun.
Head of state Yoon likewise went even more than his precursor’s strategy to relocate the head of state’s living quarters unexpectedly Home and took control of the international priest’s palace, regarding 3 kilometers far from the brand-new workplace.
Yoon’s moving strategy was promoted as a relocate to bring Cheong Wa Dae closer to the general public. However the strategy ran the gauntlet over its expense and the method it was hurried with without public examination.
While the brand-new place is secure, there have actually been problems that it does not have the class and practice of heaven Home and the appropriate centers of the governmental workplace. Website traffic concerns connected to Yin’s commute have actually likewise attracted objection.
While transferring, Yoon Eun-hye likewise “returned heaven Home to individuals” and opened it to the general public in Might 2022 for the very first time in 74 years.
Lee Myung-bak, that took workplace in June 2 months after Yoon was eliminated from workplace for enforcing martial regulation, claimed throughout his governmental project that he would certainly return heaven Home to the governmental workplace if he won the presidency.
He likewise recommended developing a brand-new governmental workplace in Sejong, the de facto management resources.
In August, heaven Home was shut for remodellings. Over 8.5 million individuals have actually seen the facility throughout its 3 years and 2 months of opening.
