Lee One-seok, acting prosecutor general and a prosecutor at the Supreme Prosecutors Office and President Yoon Suk-yeol's nominee for prosecutor general, at the Supreme Prosecutors Office in Seoul on Aug. 18. Yonhap

Han Ki-jeong / Korea Times file

President Yoon Suk-yeol has named a senior prosecutor to be the new prosecutor general while also nominating a law professor to head the state antitrust regulator, Yoon's chief of staff said Thursday.

Lee One-seok, acting prosecutor general and a prosecutor at the Supreme Prosecutors Office, has been tapped to be the prosecutor general, while Han Ki-jeong, a law professor at Seoul National University, has been tapped to head the Fair Trade Commission, presidential chief of staff Kim Dae-ki said during a press briefing. (Yonhap)