SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean esports powerhouse T1 has issued a strong statement distancing its star player, Lee Sang-hyeok—better known as Faker—from political endorsements after a presidential candidate used a pose associated with the gamer in official campaign materials. The controversy erupted after Kim Moon-soo, a presidential contender from the ruling People Power [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul High Court on Wednesday postponed the first hearing of Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung’s retrial on election law violation charges until after the June 3 presidential election, citing the need to guarantee his right to a fair trial. The court said it postponed the hearing [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Tuesday stressed the need to unify the conservative presidential candidacy ahead of the June 3 election amid efforts to collaborate with People Power Party (PPP) candidate Kim Moon-soo. Han, who registered as an independent preliminary candidate, made the remarks during a debate session [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Two disability rights activists affiliated with the Solidarity Against Disability Discrimination (SADD) underwent a pretrial detention hearing on Monday after staging a 15-day rooftop protest atop a Catholic cathedral in Seoul’s Hyehwa-dong neighborhood. They were arrested earlier this month on charges of violating assembly laws after descending voluntarily from the [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said Monday he proposed a meeting with the People Power Party (PPP) presidential candidate Kim Moon-soo, amid growing expectations for a unified conservative candidacy ahead of the June 3 election. Han told reporters he made the proposal for a meeting later in the day [...]
SEOUL, May 5 (Korea Bizwire)– The Democratic Party (DP) on Monday called on the Seoul High Court to push back the remanded trial of its presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung until after the June 3 election, vowing to use all of its powers to prevent what it called “the judiciary’s coup.” The DP’s call came as [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo visited a national cemetery honoring victims of a 1980 pro-democracy uprising Friday as the first stop of his election campaign for the June election but was met with protests. Han traveled to the May 18th National Cemetery in Gwangju, 357 kilometers south of Seoul, [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court will hold the first hearing of a retrial in an election law violation case involving Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung on May 15, just weeks before the June election. The Seoul High Court set the date just one day after the Supreme Court struck [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — In an extraordinary development that underscores South Korea’s ongoing political instability, Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Lee Ju-ho assumed interim control of the nation’s executive leadership on Thursday, following the simultaneous resignations of former Acting President Han Duck-soo and former Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok. With the offices of [...]
SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok tendered his resignation late Thursday just before the National Assembly reported a motion to impeach him. “Deputy Prime Minister Choi submitted his resignation at 10:28 p.m.,” the Ministry of Economy and Finance said in a press release. The impeachment motion, spearheaded by the main opposition [...]