SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Police have decided to continue to ban demonstrations within the 100-meter radius of the new presidential office in Seoul’s central district of Yongsan, sources said Friday. The Seoul Metropolitan Police has recently instructed the Yongsan Police Station and nearby police forces to give a notification of prohibition to those [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The streets around the office of President Yoon Suk-yeol in the central Seoul district of Yongsan appear to be replacing the neighborhood of Cheong Wa Dae, the former presidential office and residence compound, as a new magnet for individual and group demonstrators. On Wednesday, the second day of Yoon’s [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The incoming Yoon Suk-yeol government is planning to convert part of a U.S. Forces Korea base adjacent to the new presidential office in Yongsan into a cultural space reminiscent of a “Little LA” and open it to the public in September, officials said Sunday. The 500,000-square-meter space is just [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s new presidential office to be housed in the defense ministry compound in central Seoul will be open for public viewing in accordance with his preference for communication and openness, transition team officials said Tuesday. According to an artist’s rendering released by a task force from the [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The mountain sitting behind Cheong Wa Dae will fully open to the public this week after being off-limits for decades for security reasons, officials said Tuesday. The section that will newly open Wednesday is the southern side of Mount Bukak, which was largely closed to the public after a [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — About half of South Koreans are against President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to move the presidential office out of Cheong Wa Dae, while some 44 percent support the idea, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the poll of 1,004 adults, conducted by pollster Embrain Public on Sunday and Monday, 51.9 [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — More than half of South Koreans are against President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to move the presidential office out of Cheong Wa Dae, while some 44 percent support the idea, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the poll of 500 adults, conducted by pollster Realmeter on Tuesday, 53.7 percent said [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — About 58 percent of South Koreans are against President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to move the presidential office out of Cheong Wa Dae, while some 33 percent support the idea, a poll showed Tuesday. According to the poll of 1,018 adults, conducted by pollster Mediatomato on Saturday and Sunday, 58.1 [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Cheong Wa Dae, a symbol of South Korea’s presidential authority for over seven decades, is set to vanish into history in May when it turns into a public park upon the inauguration of Yoon Suk-yeol as the new president. Yoon announced his decision Sunday to relocate the presidential office [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — About 280,000 people have signed an online petition on Cheong Wa Dae’s website to oppose President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s plan to relocate the presidential office, according to the website Monday. The petition, posted Thursday, has garnered 279,581 signatures as of Monday morning. The government is obliged to reply when more [...]