SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s campaign pledge to change the color of corporate vehicle license plates to light green is creating a sense of strain among luxury car importers. Yoon’s pledge is aimed at preventing the wealthy from evading tax by registering luxury cars they use for personal purpose [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans expect President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol to do well on state affairs, a survey showed Monday. According to the survey of 1,018 adults conducted by Realmeter last Thursday and Friday, 52.7 percent of respondents expect Yoon to do a good job on state affairs. In [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has decided to make personnel appointments based fully on merit without considering quotas for women and regional distribution, officials said Sunday, as he prepares to announce his staff for the presidential transition committee. “President-elect Yoon will never make appointments for show,” an aide said. The official [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol ramped up diplomacy with South Korea’s most important neighbors on Friday, the first full day since his election, vowing to rebuild the alliance with the United States while developing relations with China. Yoon also spoke by phone with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and stressed the [...]
SEOUL, March. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol will go through his inauguration along with his seven presidential pets. Yoon and his wife have been raising four dogs and three cats at their residence in Seoul’s Seocho District. The couple had no children and have been taking care of the seven pets as a [...]