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Neighborhood opposition threatens permanent school for North Korean defector children in Seoul

Residents in Seoul’s Gangseo District are challenging plans to build a permanent Yeomyung School campus despite pledged public and corporate funding.

2026.9.18

First responders and firefighters conduct rescue operations for a worker who was swept into a maintenance hole at a street in Yeomchang-dong, Gangseo District, western Seoul on Aug. 25. [YONHAP]

Worker death Monday just latest in string of maintenance hole mishaps

A worker who was swept into a maintenance hole during upkeep in heavy rain on Monday morning died after being rescued in a state of cardiac arrest, reigniting concerns over the lack of safety installations in maintenance holes.

2025.8.25

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Pushing stroller sales at MaE:B International Baby & Young Children Education Fair

Visitors check out strollers at the 2025 MaE:B International Baby & Young Children Education Fair in Magok at Coex in Gangseo District, western Seoul, on March 27.

2025.3.27

Ihn Yo-han, the new chief of the conservative People Power Party's innovation committee, at a meeting with party chief Kim Gi-hyeon at the party's headquarters in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Monday [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Naturalized Korean to head PPP's innovation committee

The conservative People Power Party on Monday named naturalized citizen Ihn Yo-han as the chief of the party’s innovation committee in charge of reforms to regain voters’ trust after it lost a by-election in Seoul.

2023.10.23

Take your eyes off the president (KOR)

If PPP members are only interested in getting nominations in the next election, the nightmare of the Gangseo district will befall them at any time.

2023.10.16

Take your eyes off the president

If PPP members are only interested in getting nominations in the next election, the nightmare of the Gangseo district will befall them at any time.

2023.10.15

It was an uphill battle!

PPP Chair Kim Gi-hyeon comforted Kim Tae-woo by acknowledging his tough fight in the traditional base of the DP.

2023.10.12

An ominous barometer

Just a day before early voting on Friday to elect the new head of western Seoul’s Gangseo District in a by-election next Wednesday, the governing People Power Party and the Democratic Party were hell-bent on hurling mud at their rivaling candidate.

2023.10.5

Gangseo District Chief Kim Tae-woo leaves the Suwon District Court in August last year after a hearing. [YONHAP]

Politicians, businessmen receive Liberation Day pardons

A former Seoul district chief, an ex-finance minister and scores of business tycoons were granted amnesty after the Cabinet on Monday approved the third round of presidential pardons issued by President Yoon Suk Yeol since he took office.

2023.8.14

Gangseo District Chief Kim Tae-woo leaves the Suwon District Court on Aug. 12 after a hearing. [YONHAP]

Court decisions oust two PPP elected officials

Two elected officials from the People Power Party (PPP) lost their posts on Thursday after the Supreme Court upheld decisions made by lower courts.

2023.5.18