SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Some candidates running in the April 15 parliamentary elections have been running eye-catching campaigns without having close contact with voters, in a bid to maintain social distancing and boost morale amid the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 outbreak has changed conventional methods of campaigning due to concerns that reaching out [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Ahead of the April 15 parliamentary elections, there have been calls for the removal gender designations from the electoral register to prevent sexual minorities from having their basic rights violated. The Rainbow Action, an activist group for sexual minorities, held a press conference in front of the National Human [...]
SEOUL, March 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus outbreak and the repeated postponement of the new school year have made it difficult for 18-year-old voters to receive election education at schools, spawning concerns about their apathy toward the April 15 polls. In South Korea, 18-year-old voters, or those born before April 16, 2002, will be [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The new coronavirus is rattling South Korean politics just a month before the April 15 parliamentary elections, changing the way candidates campaign and shifting the overall focus to how the government has handled the outbreak. With COVID-19 infections totaling more than 8,000, experts say the elections are widely expected [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A high-profile North Korean defector officially announced his bid to run in the April parliamentary elections Tuesday, vowing to work for inter-Korean unification if elected. Thae Yong-ho, a former senior North Korean diplomat, joined the main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) and will run in a constituency in Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Politicians are on alert as the coronavirus outbreak is expected to continue as they prepare for the upcoming general elections on April 15. Political campaigns are at risk at a critical time when candidates need to raise local support if they hope to dislodge incumbents. The situation is particularly [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Woong-jin, chief of South Korean matchmaking company Sunoo, has an ambitious plan to set up a political party this month, focused on addressing the nagging problem of the low birth rate. Lee has publicly vowed to tackle young people’s reluctance to tie the knot and the country’s low [...]