Critics say that Dr. Kim lacks basic qualifications for the job: government management experience and expertise in macroeconomics and finance.
The basic qualifications for suffrage are similar everywhere, although there are minor variations from country to country.
The American Foreign Service Association, which represents career officers, plans to issue proposed guidelines on 25 February laying out basic qualifications for a chief of mission.
In 2014, the Sun-Sentinel reported that Israel had made Scott Stone, Roger Stone's stepson, a detective, despite the younger Stone seeming to lack basic qualifications for the job.
Miroslav Kalousek, the Czech finance minister, shot back, "George, looking like an idiot is one of the basic qualifications for a minister".
His thespian friends, having been bought numerous drinks by newspaper profile-writers, will reluctantly admit that he's "hard to work with" and "likes to get his own way" - basic qualifications for treading the boards, really.
By surviving her encounter with Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. and quelling some of the talk about her basic qualifications for high office, she may even have done Senator John McCain a bit of good, freeing him to focus on the other troubles shadowing his campaign.
Pressure for reform led to official formulations of basic qualifications for different posts; appointments and promotions boards were established within each department to prevent or obstruct overt political favouritism and nepotism; and salary scales were introduced for different grades to provide a civil servant with increments for good service while still holding the same post.
"We are going to create an economy that works for all of us, not just the 1%." The race in New York has been testy at times; Sanders and Clinton went at each other last week over their basic qualifications for the job in a back-and-forth with some bite.
Otherwise, by this time you should know if they possess the basic qualifications for the job.
