SEOUL, Mar. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – In time for the launch of the April 10 general elections’ official campaigning, the government issued a statement on Thursday vowing to punish all illegal acts related to the elections under the zero tolerance principle. The government will intensively crack down on the publication of false information, black propaganda, [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The chief of the National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday urged each party and candidate to refrain from hate speech ahead of the April 10 parliamentary elections. Song Doo-hwan, chairman of the commission, said in a statement that state institutions, such as the National Election Commission, should declare their [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey has shown that labor experts consider the reintroduction of the “Yellow Envelope Law” (an amendment to the Labor Union and Labor Relations Act) as the most crucial pledge for office workers in this year’s general election. Gabjil 119, a civic group, conducted a poll among its affiliated [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Election Commission (NEC) said Wednesday it will introduce a manual ballot counting system for general elections in April in an effort to ensure transparency and prevent potential election rigging. Currently, machines are used to sort out and count votes. Under the envisioned new system, however, ballots will [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With about 100 days until April’s parliamentary elections, political parties are vying to get a head start in the crucial race that observers say could determine whether President Yoon Suk Yeol will be able to push his agenda forward or end up an early lame duck. Recent public surveys [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Baseless claims on rigged presidential election have been spreading throughout YouTube and other social media platforms every election season, calling upon the need to curb such activity. A Korea YouTuber followed by more than 600,000 people claimed that the government “must have manipulated the number of early votes,” on [...]
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) [...]
BUSAN, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — On Wednesday, when Busan held a mayoral by-election, places like memorial halls, apparel stores and taekwondo gyms turned into polling stations across the city. On election day, a men’s wear shop welcomed voters instead of customers. In a space where shoes and suits would normally be displayed, three ballot [...]
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Young Kim, a Korean-American Republican, won the U.S. House election in a Southern California district on Friday, U.S. media reported. The former state lawmaker joined three other politicians of Korean descent elected to the House of Representatives in the Nov. 3 elections. Kim, 57, was born in South [...]
SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Election officials here focused Wednesday on counting ballots for the general elections, taking precautions against the spread of COVID-19 by wearing face masks, gloves and even face shields. Vote counting immediately got under way after self-isolating voters cast their in-person ballots nationwide for a while after the regular voting [...]