SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The foreign ministry plans to launch a special team to look into the controversial agreement signed with Japan on its wartime sexual enslavement of Korean women, a ministry official said Friday. The move is in line with President Moon Jae-in’s campaign pledge to review the agreement signed in December [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly a month has passed since the inauguration of President Moon Jae-in on May 10. Among the many adjectives used by the media to define Moon’s personality, “unauthoritarian” stands out. Moon’s departure from the stereotypical authoritarian attitudes of a president became a hot topic in the news starting his [...]
SEOUL, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The year 2016 was marked by the largest numbers of both protests and protest participants in a decade – largely due to the national outcry against now impeached former president, Park Geun-hye – but it certainly wasn’t the most violent. According to 2006 – 2016 data from the Korean [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – President Moon Jae-in on Friday ordered the scrapping of controversial history textbooks authored by a government committee set up under the former conservative administration. “As efforts to normalize history education, the president has ordered the abolition of state authored history textbooks,” Moon’s chief press secretary Yoon Young-chan told a [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A record number of overseas South Korean nationals will take part in the country’s upcoming presidential election, the election watchdog said Monday. According to the National Election Commission (NEC), a total of 294,633 overseas voters have signed up for the May 9 election. Registration for overseas voters ended March [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul court held a hearing Thursday to decide whether to issue an arrest warrant for former President Park Geun-hye over a string of corruption allegations that removed her from office. The former president appeared at the Seoul Central District Court at around 10:20 a.m. to attend the review [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Park Geun-hye administration’s rule, which collapsed with its leader’s impeachment, was not the best of times for CJ, a major food and media conglomerate in South Korea. A year and half after President Park took office in 2013, CJ Vice Chairwoman Lee Mi-kyung (who was the de facto [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn on Monday called for a stern crackdown on fake news and other election crimes with the presidential election 41 days away. During a meeting of related ministers on preparation for the May 9 election day, Hwang also instructed the government to employ [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A local education office said Wednesday it has decided to dismiss three teachers who gave undue academic favors to the daughter of former President Park Geun-hye’s close friend at the center of an influence-peddling scandal. The teachers at Chungdam High School in southern Seoul are accused of unfairly giving [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors said Wednesday they are considering whether to seek an arrest for former President Park Geun-hye after a marathon session of questioning over a string of corruption allegations that led to her removal from office. Park returned home early in the morning after a 21-hour interrogation at the Seoul Central [...]