SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The suspended chairman of the ruling People Power Party (PPP), Lee Jun-seok, again cried foul Saturday over a party leadership switch, which he claims is aimed at removing him from his position. The PPP’s move to switch to an emergency leadership system is “unfair” and “nonsense,” Lee told reporters [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol said Tuesday his focus is on protecting people’s livelihoods from the economic crisis as he took questions from reporters a day after daily Q&A sessions were suspended due to a COVID-19 outbreak among the press corps. Yoon greeted reporters as he arrived for work by saying [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol suspended his daily morning Q&A sessions with reporters Monday due to a COVID-19 outbreak in the press room, officials said. Doorstepping as Yoon arrives for work has become a daily routine, except on days when the president travels outside of the capital, allowing reporters to ask [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The ruling People Power Party suspended the party membership of leader Lee Jun-seok for six months Friday over allegations of sexual bribery and a cover-up, a decision that is expected to unseat him as party chairman, throw the party into confusion and deepen an intraparty power struggle. The PPP’s [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The bereaved family of a fisheries official killed by North Korea in 2020 vowed Friday to reveal what former President Moon Jae-in did during the six hours after their loved one was found adrift at sea until he was ultimately shot to death. The family of the late official, [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The new presidential residence to be used by President Yoon Suk-yeol is about half the size of the former presidential home at Cheong Wa Dae, informed officials said Wednesday. The foreign minister’s residence at the foot of Mount Nam in central Seoul is now remodeled into the new presidential [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans headed to the polls for early voting Friday for next week’s local elections and parliamentary by-elections that can significantly strengthen or undermine the mandate of the new government of President Yoon Suk-yeol less than a month after its launch. Eligible voters can cast ballots at 3,551 polling [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Ji-hyun, the 26-year-old co-head of the main opposition Democratic Party’s (DP) interim leadership committee, said Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden wished her to be a “bigger politician.” Park and Biden met during the state dinner that President Yoon Suk-yeol hosted at the National Museum of Korea for [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol made his first commute to work by motorcade Wednesday, an unusual spectacle that followed his relocation of the presidential office. Yoon left his private home in southern Seoul at 8:21 a.m. and arrived at his office in the central district of Yongsan at 8:34 a.m. The [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Incoming President Yoon Suk-yeol will shake hands and take selfies with people at the National Assembly plaza before walking up to the stage to take his oath of office, the chief of the inauguration committee said Sunday. Yoon will step out of his car as soon as he enters [...]