SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Election posters of minor candidates competing for the mayoral seat in Seoul have been damaged by voters after they publicly announced their support for feminists and LGBT rights. Seoul Mapo Police Station recently arrested perpetrators who took down election banners of Oh Tae-yang, Mirae Party’s candidate for the mayoral [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Jang Hye-young, a novice female lawmaker with the progressive minor Justice Party, has been listed among the Time magazine’s “100 Next” emerging leaders for 2021. The 34-year-old lawmaker made the annual Time list in the advocates category, out of the total five categories that also include artists and leaders. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The ruling Democratic Party (DP) on Tuesday vowed to legislate a set of bills that would increase the burden of responsibility of news media, internet portals, YouTubers and bloggers for fake or false news. “We decided to push for legislation under the principle that news media and internet portals [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Kim Jong-cheol, the chief of the progressive minor Justice Party, stepped down Monday for sexually harassing a female lawmaker of the same party. It is the first time that the head of an established political party has resigned due to sexual misconduct. The unprecedented case is expected to deal a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The ruling Democratic Party (DP) has set out to find ways to get lucrative companies to share some of their profits with small businesses vulnerable to losses amid the coronavirus pandemic, but it is facing vehement objection from the business community and opposition lawmakers. Last week, a DP task [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in said Monday that the government will provide all South Korean people with free-of-charge COVID-19 vaccines in phases starting next month. “(The government) will make sure that all of the people will be inoculated free of charge in accordance with priorities,” he said in his New Year’s [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A landmark legislation bill aimed at preventing serious workplace disasters has been stripped of many of its initial stipulations as it underwent parliamentary review, sparking criticism from the labor circle on the legislation’s effectivity. The draft of what is simply known as the severe disaster law advanced through the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans were almost evenly divided on the idea of granting pardons to two former presidents currently in prison for corruption charges, a hotly debated topic recently brought up by the ruling party chief, a survey showed Wednesday. In a one-day survey by Realmeter conducted on 500 voters nationwide [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in said Monday that South Korea aims to become a railway infrastructure powerhouse, as he took a trial ride on the nation’s landmark bullet train, designed to cut carbon emissions, in his first on-site activity of 2021. He traveled between two local cities — Wonju in Gangwon [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in on Saturday paid tribute to fallen national heroes at a state cemetery in Seoul and pledged to chart a path to normalcy for pandemic-weary citizens. Moon visited Seoul National Cemetery, flanked by his top aides, such as Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun and his new chief of [...]