Kim leaves office as prime minister

Prime Minister Kim Min-seok left office Wednesday, asking civil servants to put the people's lives and the socially vulnerable ahead of anything else.

"I think politics is to see the future through the eyes of the weak," Kim said during his departure ceremony, pointing to his official prime ministerial tie that features a pattern of sheep with an empty space in the center.

"This is an expression of our pledge to look after and take care of all, with no one left behind, in the course of (the econ ...