SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol marks his first year in office on Wednesday amid positive assessments of his foreign policy achievements but with little to show in terms of political skill, according to experts. Yoon’s efforts to rebuild ties with the United States and Japan have won him praise, as [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol instructed officials Monday to quickly come up with a road map for abolishing the gender ministry in line with his campaign pledge, his spokesperson said. Yoon made the remark during a policy briefing by Gender Equality and Family Minister Kim Hyun-sook at his office, saying she [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol said Tuesday his focus is on protecting people’s livelihoods from the economic crisis as he took questions from reporters a day after daily Q&A sessions were suspended due to a COVID-19 outbreak among the press corps. Yoon greeted reporters as he arrived for work by saying [...]
SEOUL, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol suspended his daily morning Q&A sessions with reporters Monday due to a COVID-19 outbreak in the press room, officials said. Doorstepping as Yoon arrives for work has become a daily routine, except on days when the president travels outside of the capital, allowing reporters to ask [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in said Monday that he expects to communicate with people on his post-presidential life via Twitter, as the number of followers of his account surpassed 2 million. “After retirement, I look forward to having a conversation about new life out of politics (via Twitter),” Moon said in [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Fifty-five percent of South Koreans expect President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol will do a good job after taking office, a survey showed Friday, though his predecessors had approval ratings of about 80 percent around the same time after the election. The Gallup Korea survey of 1,000 adults conducted between Tuesday and [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President Moon Jae-in will ride an electric vehicle (EV) after he leaves office. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s tender notice for the purchase (lease) of a vehicle for the use of the soon-to-be former president that was posted on the Public Procurement Service’s Government e-Procurement [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has undergone a dramatic transformation from a prosecutor general serving outgoing President Moon Jae-in to Moon’s successor on the opposition ticket after championing a fairer society built on common sense and the rule of law. Yoon, 61, rose to prominence as a prosecutor investigating high-profile cases [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol was elected South Korea’s next president Thursday after an unbelievably close race that underlined deep divisions along regional, generational and gender lines, and hands him a daunting task to narrow those chasms. With all the votes counted, Yoon of the conservative People Power Party (PPP) [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — About 42 percent of South Koreans think that President Moon Jae-in did a good job in handling state affairs over the past five years, an approval rating slighly higher than the vote he received in the 2017 presidential election, a poll showed Wednesday. Moon, who was elected president with [...]