SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean lawmakers boast the highest level of academic credentials among parliamentarians worldwide, with more than one-third holding doctoral degrees, according to a recent academic study featured in The Economist on November 14. The comprehensive research, conducted by scholars from six institutions including Duke University, analyzed the educational backgrounds of [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A ruling People Power Party (PPP) lawmaker filed a complaint with police Monday against a woman and a liberal news show host for spreading false information that the lawmaker’s family was behind the suicide of a young elementary school teacher. The unidentified woman first wrote an internet post that [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Opposition lawmaker Kim Nam-kuk, embroiled in a controversy over his possession of undeclared virtual assets, appears to have invested a large sum in highly volatile alternative cryptocurrencies, industry officials said Friday. Kim of the main opposition Democratic Party is said to have exchanged 510,000 Wemix coins, once valued at [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — A lawmaker with a visual disability stressed that every year, the last Wednesday of April is the International Guide Dog Day, calling for more efforts to raise social awareness and public interest in guide dogs. Rep. Kim Ye-ji of the People Power Party told MBC radio Thursday that there [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A ruling party lawmaker plans to accept political donations in cryptocurrencies, his office said Thursday, amid rising interest in virtual assets in the country. Rep. Lee Kwang-jae of the ruling Democratic Party is trying to get campaign contributions in virtual currencies and issue non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as a receipt [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Rep. Ryu Ho-jeong of the progressive minor Justice Party has taken a bold step in her campaign to liberalize strict regulations on tattooing: revealing her back full of erasable tattoos in a purple dress. Ryu delivered the performance during a joint news conference with a group of tattooists at [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A ruling party lawmaker has come under fire for a leaked mobile messenger conversation that opposition lawmakers claimed corroborates the ruling party’s censorship of the press. Press cameras captured a screenshot of a Telegram conversation between Rep. Yoon Young-chan of the Democratic Party (DP) and an unknown person during [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A ruling party heavyweight in South Korea strongly criticized U.S. Ambassador Harry Harris on Friday for his remarks on President Moon Jae-in’s push for inter-Korean cooperation. “It’s good to express his personal view, but if South Korea follows whatever a foreign ambassador says, he or she would be like [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – There are certain numbers that, when pronounced in Korean, can convey a completely different meaning than the numbers themselves, like homophones. And while the number 1,004, pronounced “Cheon-Sa”, can also mean “angel”, the number 18, read “si-pal”, signifies something of an entirely different nature – it’s the four-letter word [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The percentage of lawmakers in the new National Assembly who were exempted from serving in the military has fallen below the national average, data showed Wednesday, a development that reflects growing demand that elected officials fulfill their obligations before asking for votes. Of the 249 male lawmakers in the [...]