SEOUL, Jul. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) will be pushing for the registration of “candlelight vigils” in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme, an international initiative to protect the documentary heritage of humanity. The historical and cultural asset division of the SMG has commissioned experts to carry out initial research to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Eight out of 10 South Koreans support overhauling or dismantling the military’s intelligence unit, a survey showed Thursday, following revelations the unit reviewed the possibility of martial law last year in response to protests calling for then-President Park Geun-hye’s ouster. A Defense Security Command (DSC) document, drawn up last [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Former President Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in prison and 18 billion won in fine on Friday in a massive corruption scandal that toppled her from power early last year. In a live televised trial, the Seoul Central District Court meted out the guilty verdict for the 66-year-old former leader, about a year after her arrest in late March of 2017. [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court on Thursday turned down another injunction filed by former President Park Geun-hye against a court decision to allow the live broadcast of her sentencing hearing set for the following day. The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the request, saying it does not constitute grounds for reconsideration. This is the second injunction rejected by the court regarding the high-profile bribery and corruption trial of the ousted [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year, South Koreans trusted government more and businesses less compared to the year prior, while level of trust in the media and NGOs remained nearly unchanged. In total, South Korea’s trust levels in the four sectors of society rose by 23 percentage points from 2016, placing it among [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court is set to hand down its verdict Monday on Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who was found guilty by a lower court of offering kickbacks to former President Park Geun-hye, and her friend, in a scandal that led to Park’s ouster last year. The scion [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The board of directors of public broadcaster KBS on Monday approved a motion to dismiss its president, Koh Dae-young, who is accused of political bias and unfair labor practices. Ten of the board’s 11 members attended the closed-door session to vote on the proposal submitted Jan. 8. The broadcaster’s 2,200 unionized workers have been on strike since Sept. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao released on December 22 a list of the most searched keywords from January through November on its Daum portal in the categories of news, personalities and media. In news, “19th election”, “Park Geun-hye impeachment”, “Kim Joo-hyuk death”, “Pohang earthquake” and “cryptocurrency” were the most searched in order from [...]
BERLIN, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The German political foundation, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), on Tuesday presented its human rights award to the 17 million South Koreans who took part in candlelight rallies in the Asian country last year to call for then-President Park Geun-hye’s resignation over an influence-peddling scandal. Jang Ae-jin, a survivor of the 2014 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans picked Park Geun-hye’s impeachment as president as the biggest issue of 2017, followed by the launch of the government of her successor, President Moon Jae-in, a survey showed Monday. The Realmeter survey of 501 people showed that 47.6 percent of the respondents chose Park’s ouster as the [...]