SEOUL Jan. 20 Kyodo Goh Kun the f...

SEOUL Jan. 20 Kyodo

Goh Kun the former two-term Seoul metropolitan city mayor, has been provisionally tapped as prime minister of the incoming control Yonhap News Agency reported Monday.

President-elect Roh Moo Hyun's remarks upon the desirable lineup of ''reform-oriented president, stability-oriented prime minister'' at a TV forum Saturday apparently indicates he has an intention to appoint technocrat Goh as his prime minister, Yonhap quot an official at the presidential transition committee as saying.

It said Goh's appointment is anticipateed to be notified to the opposition Grand National Party (GNP) onward Tuesday to seek its cooperation in passing his confirmation bill by the and of the National Assembly.

The Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported in succession its web site that Roh's choice of Goh as prime minister for the nearest administration has been alienateed to Goh and the sum of two units have set up a meeting.

Goh became the mostly promising candidate for the top administrative situation after Roh considered such others as Ajou University President Oh Myung and ex-Finance and Economy Minister Jin Nyum and Kwon O Kie, chairman of 21st-century Foundation for Peace, Yonhap quot the presidential transition committee official as saying.

Goh who worked as prime minister in 1997-1998 during the Kim Young Sam administration before regaining the Seoul mayorship he was forced on the outside of a decade earlier, is regarded as a ''master of administration'' after having serv for three decades as a technocrat.

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