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 [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s key military compound in central Seoul is set to undergo major realignments due to the planned relocation of the presidential office there at a time of rising security concerns caused by North Korea’s continued missile tests. The area is home to the nation’s defense ministry, the Joint [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol on Sunday announced a decision to move the presidential office from Cheong Wa Dae to what is now the defense ministry building several kilometers away, saying he wants his office to move out of a “symbol of imperial power” and get closer to the people. The [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s push to relocate the presidential office has become a hot button issue amid competing views on whether it will help the president better communicate with the people or simply waste resources. Yoon was elected last week after promising to “return” Cheong Wa Dae to the public [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s presidential office, or Cheong Wa Dae, is expected to undergo sweeping changes both externally and internally under the incoming government of President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol, who has promised a smaller and less powerful presidential office, informed officials said Friday. Yoon won Wednesday’s presidential election on campaign pledges on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has moved a Patriot missile unit from a southeastern region to central Seoul, sources said Tuesday, as part of efforts to better defend key facilities from potential threats from North Korea. The Air Force unit, which previously was stationed in North Gyeongsang Province, was relocated to a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is pushing to relocate the presidential office now situated at the foot of a mountain in Seoul to a state office complex in the downtown area in 2019, sources said Sunday. Later in the year, the government plans to launch a committee in charge of finalizing the [...]