SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — About 280,000 people have signed an online petition on Cheong Wa Dae’s website to oppose President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to relocate the presidential office, according to the website Monday. The petition, posted Thursday, has garnered 279,581 signatures as of Monday morning. The government is obliged to reply when more [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s push to relocate the presidential office has become a hot button issue amid competing views on whether it will help the president better communicate with the people or simply waste resources. Yoon was elected last week after promising to “return” Cheong Wa Dae to the public [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans expect President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol to do well on state affairs, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey of 1,018 adults conducted by Realmeter last Thursday and Friday, 52.7 percent of respondents expect Yoon to do a good job on state affairs. In [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has decided to make personnel appointments based fully on merit without considering quotas for women and regional distribution, officials said Sunday, as he prepares to announce his staff for the presidential transition committee. “President-elect Yoon will never make appointments for show,” an aide said. The official [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The presidential election won by main opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol set a variety of new records. First off, the conservative candidate won the election by the smallest number of votes against the progressive contender. Varying results from a number of public opinion surveys prevented election authorities from choosing the [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The fate of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family has become uncertain as Yoon Suk-yeol was elected Thursday as president of South Korea with a campaign pledge to close the ministry. President-elect Yoon of the conservative People Power Party (PPP) pledged to dissolve the 21-year-old ministry in a [...]
WASHINGTON, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The decadeslong South Korea-U.S. alliance may be in for its prime yet under South Korea’s incoming government of Yoon Suk-yeol, who will also likely align his major foreign policy with that of the U.S. on issues such as North Korea, U.S. experts said. The prosecutor-turned-politician won the presidential election, upsetting [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has undergone a dramatic transformation from a prosecutor general serving outgoing President Moon Jae-in to Moon’s successor on the opposition ticket after championing a fairer society built on common sense and the rule of law. Yoon, 61, rose to prominence as a prosecutor investigating high-profile cases [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol was elected South Korea’s next president Thursday after an unbelievably close race that underlined deep divisions along regional, generational and gender lines, and hands him a daunting task to narrow those chasms. With all the votes counted, Yoon of the conservative People Power Party (PPP) [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s national election commission on Sunday apologized for an alleged poor management of the early voting for the March 9 presidential election, but it dismissed any suggestion of electoral foul play. “We are sorry and regretful for having caused inconvenience during the early voting for COVID-19 patients yesterday,” [...]