Kim Yong-tae, emergency committee head of the People Power Party, issued an apology regarding controversies involving former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s wife, Kim Keon Hee, and pledged institutional reforms for vetting presidential spouses.
Yoon Suk-yeol of the opposition People Power Party (PPP) has been elected as the 20th president after beating his rival Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) in the narrowest margin.
If former President Yoon Suk Yeol feels any responsibility for the early election triggered by his impeachment, he should refrain from intervening in the process.
If the government wants things to work, if it hopes civil servants will once again run hard for the public good, the leadership must redefine the standards, methods and scope of ending the insurrection.
The future of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee looks even bleaker than before.
Physical altercations broke out between YouTubers gathered in front of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol’s official residence in Hannam-dong, central Seoul, on Thursday.
The Constitutional Court is set to hold the final hearing of President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial Tuesday as attention focuses on how the president will defend his short-lived imposition of martial law.
The agency’s finding exposed serious loopholes in the anti-graft law.
Both the presidential office and the prosecution have finished their first homework, but the real test awaits.
The new PPP leader must leave his ruthless past as a prosecutor behind him and demonstrate his engaging power.
In the latest public opinion poll, liberal Democratic Party (DP) candidate Lee Jae-myung saw an uptick in support, while conservative People Power Party (PPP) candidate Kim Moon-soo and Reform Party candidate Lee Jun-seok experienced a drop.
The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) requested an arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection on Monday.
The leadership of the party must promise it will humbly accept what the innovation committee proposes. Otherwise, the party will be judged by the voters in the election on April 10.
To achieve the goal, the committee must have a clear role and power.
After its crushing defeat in a by-election in Seoul, the governing People Power Party seated Ihn Yo-han — a professor at Yonsei University College of Medicine and Korea’s first special naturalized citizen — as the head of its innovation committee.
After the People Power Party (PPP)’s innovation committee chair Ihn Yo-han blamed the parents of former PPP leader Lee Jun-seok for his repeatedly off-track remarks and behavior, Lee makes a counterattack.
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol will return to Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, Gyeonggi on Thursday, just 124 days after his release, following a court order approving his pretrial detention.
President Yoon Suk-yeol has moved to act on his No. 1 campaign promise of fully compensating self-employed and small merchants for losses from state-enforced Covid-19 business restrictions. Yoon has promised to spend over 50 trillion...
The stakes for the country remain high, and success will depend on Lee’s adherence to that fundamental principle: presidential power and time must be used for the people, not oneself.
Responses to the arrest of President Yoon Suk Yeol were sharply divided along partisan lines on Wednesday.