SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s opposition parties said Tuesday they tentatively agreed to put the impeachment motion against President Park Geun-hye up for a vote later this week. “We will quickly move to complete the impeachment this week,” Woo Sang-ho, the floor leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, said during a [...]
SEJONG, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Directors in the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism have been ill at ease recently because of the chance that they might be promoted to the top position in a personnel realignment of high ranking officials that could happen as early as next month. Government officials have long been [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye’s on Monday refused prosecutors’ request for face-to-face questioning on her role in an influence-peddling scandal that has rocked her presidency. Her attorney Yoo Yeong-ha said the president “will not be able to cooperate” with the direct inquiry, citing her busy schedule. “The president has a difficult [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korean media outlets have been busy lately with extensive coverage of South Korea’s political crisis, railing against the South’s feeble state of affairs and its embroiled President Park Geun-hye. But their propaganda may be having a reverse effect, said Voice of America on Thursday, citing interviews with former [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – President Park Geun-hye’s approval rating fell further to a record-low 4 percent this week while 93 percent expressed discontent on her job performance amid an influence-peddling scandal, Gallup Korea said Friday. Park’s approval rating, which remained at a 5-percent range for the past three weeks, began to fall again [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s main opposition Democratic Party said Thursday it will speed up drafting a legislative motion to impeach President Park Geun-hye, aiming to have it pass parliament early next month. Floor leader Rep. Woo Sang-ho also said it will put the issue of forming a national unity government led [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The leader of the main opposition Democratic Party on Monday said her party will immediately review the timing and ways for impeaching President Park Geun-hye, who the prosecution has listed as a suspect in a corruption scandal involving her confidante. Rep. Choo Mi-ae also said her party will set [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A senior executive at South Korea’s largest business group Samsung was questioned Friday as prosecutors accelerated their investigation into local conglomerates’ alleged involvement in an influence-peddling scandal rocking the country. Chang Choong-ki, head of Samsung’s strategy planning department, the group’s de facto control tower, appeared before the Seoul Central [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors raided the offices of Cheil Worldwide Inc., the advertising unit of the country’s largest business group Samsung, on Tuesday over its alleged involvement in a snowballing influence-peddling scandal rocking the country. The prosecution team looking into the Choi Soon-sil scandal said its investigators raided the ad agency located [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans are expected to join an anti-government protest Saturday, police and civic groups said, amid rising public anger over President Park Geun-hye’s corruption scandal. The rally, involving some 1,500 civic groups, may draw the largest number of participants this millennium, with the police expecting [...]