SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Democratic Party (DP) on Monday disclosed photos it claims show a judge overseeing the insurrection trial of former President Yoon Suk Yeol at a hostess bar, shortly after the judge denied allegations in connection with such a hostess bar. Jee Kui-youn of the Seoul Central District Court has [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Overseas voting for the June 3 presidential election is set to kick off Tuesday for a six-day run, the election watchdog said Monday. A total of 258,254 overseas South Korean nationals, including those registered as absentee voters, will be eligible to vote at 223 polling stations across 118 countries [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea has removed “unification” from the name of a building on the North’s side of the truce village of Panmunjom, Seoul’s unification ministry said Monday, as Pyongyang has stepped up its campaign to redefine relations with Seoul as hostile. In August last year, North Korea replaced the signboard [...]
Gwangju, South Korea, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The rain came and went over Gwangju’s northern hills, but the students kept walking—518 of them, a symbolic number etched into the nation’s memory. On this overcast morning, just two days before the 45th anniversary of the May 18 Democratic Uprising, they made their quiet way through the [...]
HONOLULU, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The top U.S. military commander in South Korea emphasized the continued need for American ground forces on the Korean Peninsula, citing growing strategic concerns involving China and Russia and the geographic importance of South Korea within the Indo-Pacific region. Speaking at the LANPAC Symposium hosted by the Association of the [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Democratic Party (DP) candidate Lee Jae-myung appealed to voters in North Jeolla Province on Friday, while People Power Party (PPP) candidate Kim Moon-soo headed to battleground regions in the Gyeonggi and South Chungcheong provinces. With the official campaigns for the June 3 presidential election entering the fifth day, Lee [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Democratic Party (DP) candidate Lee Jae-myung held a campaign rally in South Jeolla Province on Thursday, while People Power Party (PPP) candidate Kim Moon-soo apologized for the failed martial law bid by former President Yoon Suk Yeol, with less than three weeks to go before the presidential election. Lee, [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Assembly on Wednesday proposed a special counsel investigation into allegations that the Supreme Court interfered in the upcoming presidential election by abusing its judicial authority in the retrial of Democratic Party (DP) candidate Lee Jae-myung. The Assembly’s legislation and judiciary committee put forth the bill calling for [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An envisioned U.S. national defense strategy may lead South Korea and the United States to explore “greater flexibility” of the 28,500-strong U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) to help keep an assertive China in check, a former senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. Randall Schriver, former assistant secretary of defense for Indo-Pacific [...]
WASHINGTON, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea is projected to have 50 ground-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, by 2035, an intelligence agency of the U.S. Defense Department said in a report Tuesday. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released the report on the current and future threats to the [...]