SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol held a phone call with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday to congratulate him on his “landslide victory,” and they agreed to hold an in-person meeting at an early date, according to Yoon’s office. Yoon congratulated Trump on his victory with the “Make America Great [...]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has sent its top envoy to the United States to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, according to officials Thursday. Ambassador Cho Hyun-dong’s visit to Trump’s home in Palm Beach follows Trump’s election win Wednesday. Cho plans to meet with people from Trump’s camp as [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korea fired what appeared to be a new type of solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) toward the East Sea on Thursday, South Korea’s military said, in a move apparently aimed at bolstering Pyongyang’s leverage head of the U.S. presidential election next week. Thursday’s launch also came hours after [...]
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) [...]