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 [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Fears of the coronavirus didn’t stop South Koreans even in self-isolation from voting Wednesday. A prerequisite was that those who were self-isolating cast their ballots after the regular voting hours that ended at 6 p.m. They were required to arrive at designated polling stations on foot or by their [...]
SEOUL, March 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Back in North Korea, Ji Seong-ho saw elections as nothing more than a formality, because even a vote against the ruling Workers’ Party-picked candidates, let alone criticism of the government, could land voters in prison. Running for office was an unthinkable privilege reserved for elites and well-connected people. That’s [...]
SEJONG, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Educational authorities will make sure high school students can receive education about how to exercise their rights as democratic citizens after the country’s minimum voting age was lowered to 18 last month, Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae has said. “The voting age reduction is meaningful, and we will provide democratic [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of South Korean teenagers directly called on the National Assembly to pass fast-track bills on electoral reform so that they can participate in next year’s general elections. The Candlelight Coalition for the Enactment of Human Rights Law for Youth, comprised of 370 civil groups, held a rally [...]
LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Republican candidate Young Kim, who was expected to become the first Korean-American woman elected to Congress, has been defeated by Democratic rival Gil Cisneros in California’s 39th district, a report said Saturday. The South Korea-born politician took the lead in initial vote counting in the Nov. 6 election. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As a season of elections, both parliamentary and presidential, dawn upon Turkey, a series of disparaging and distorted press reports on South Korea have been published. On May 31, Turkish daily Yeni Şafak published a column that criticized the current discourse calling for a “Korean model” of economic development, [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean minors who have yet to reach the legal voting age also chose Moon Jae-in as the new president in a mock election arranged by YMCA Korea. Of a total of 51,715 votes, President Moon received 39.14 percent of all ballots at 20,245, officials said Wednesday. Unlike the [...]