SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye’s job approval rating moved up on the back of public support for her historic visit to Iran, a poll showed Thursday. The poll released by local pollster Realmeter showed 35.6 percent approval of the job Park is doing, up 4.6 percentage points from a week earlier. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye expressed hopes on Thursday that more people will donate, citing her email conversation with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “I have recently exchanged an email with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about sharing and the spirit of donation,” Park wrote in her Facebook post. “I hope that there [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye vowed efforts to cultivate the local bio industry Monday, saying it will serve as a new growth engine for the country in the future “The government plans to continue strengthening its support to develop the bio-medicine industry as the core industry that spurs growth in our [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye reiterated her calls Tuesday for parliamentary approval of a bill meant to protect South Korea from possible terrorist attacks. She warned that South Korea could neither properly cooperate with the international community nor exchange intelligence on terrorism unless parliament endorses the bill. “Even IS came to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Justice Minister Kim Hyun-woong vowed on Friday not to tolerate any illegal, violent demonstrations ahead of next week’s protest, the second in three weeks. “An illegal, violent protest is a critical and evident challenge to peace-loving citizens and the constitutionalism of South Korea,” Kim said in a statement. “(We [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye expressed hope Wednesday that a social security commission will lead the country’s welfare policies. “I hope that (the commission) will always worry and make efforts from the point of the people and build internal stability of social security policies, as well as act as the centripetal [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — President Park Geun-hye will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe next week, Cheong Wa Dae said Wednesday, in the first bilateral summit between leaders of the two neighbors in more than three years. Park has so far shunned a bilateral meeting with Abe due to disputes over shared [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States believed late former South Korean President Park Chung-hee, father of current President Park Geun-hye, was neither an opportunist or a communist, according to a declassified 1961 CIA report. The daily intelligence report to the president, which was dated on July 19, 1961, came two months after [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has begun research into the possible introduction of visa waivers for Chinese on a gradual basis as Seoul’s economic and political ties with Beijing improved drastically in recent years. The Foreign Ministry has asked a research center affiliated with the International Organization for Migration to write a report on [...]
BEIJING, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The upcoming attendance of President Park Geun-hye at China’s World War II Victory Day military parade is a sovereign decision of South Korea, Chinese state-run media and a Chinese expert said on Thursday. Park’s decision to attend the Sept. 3 parade marking the 70th anniversary of the end of [...]