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Cho Kuk, head of the Institute for Policy Innovation at the minor liberal Rebuilding Korea Party, speaks during an event for party members in Gochang County, North Jeolla, on Aug. 27. [REBUILDING KOREA PARTY]

Prosecutors drop charges against ex-presidential officials in reinvestigation of 2018 election meddling case

Prosecutors said Thursday they would not seek charges against former presidential officials under the past Moon Jae-in administration in its reinvestigation of alleged election meddling in the 2018 mayoral race of the southeastern city of Ulsan.

2025.10.2

How to parrot Kim Jong-un on unification

Unification may still be far-fetched, but we can never surrender our strategic national goal.

2024.9.30

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Im Jong-seok, who served as former President Moon Jae-in's chief of staff, arrives for questioning at the Jeonju District Prosecutors' Office in Jeonju, North Jeolla, on Tuesday afternoon. [YONHAP]

Airline didn't hire ex-President Moon's former son-in-law as quid pro quo, top aide says

Former President Moon Jae-in's chief of staff Im Jong-seok denied allegations that Moon's former son-in-law was hired at an airline in exchange for government favors for the company as he appeared for questioning by prosecutors on Tuesday.

2024.8.20

Im Jong-seok, presidential chief of staff of the former Moon Jae-in government, left, and Cho Kuk, then-presidential secretary for civil affairs, talk to each other during a National Assembly meeting in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Dec. 31, 2018. [NEWS1]

Prosecutors raid Presidential Archives over Ulsan election meddling in 2018

Prosecutors on Thursday raided the Presidential Archives to reinvestigate the alleged meddling scandal in the 2018 Ulsan mayoral election.

2024.3.7

Unbelievable!

Im Jong-seok is astonished by the latest decision from the nomination committee of the Democratic Party, led by its leader Lee Jae-myung, to not nominate him for a Seoul district he represented for three terms.

2024.2.27

Rep. Ko Min-jung, a former presidential spokesperson in the Moon Jae-in administration, holds a press conference announcing she will step down as a Democratic Party (DP) supreme council member at the National Assembly in western Seoul Tuesday. [NEWS1]

DP defections mount as nominations widen factional rift

Im Jong-seok, a former chief of staff for President Moon Jae-in, failed to be nominated as the DP candidate for Seoul's Jung-Seongdong district, the constituency widely considered his home turf.

2024.2.27

Posters for candidates seeking party nominations to run in the April 10 general election cover the billboards outside a building in Uiwang, Gyeonggi, on Monday. [NEWS1]

Survey report inflames factional tensions within DP

Controversy is brewing within the liberal Democratic Party (DP) after several incidents critics interpret as signs that members not aligned with party leader Lee Jae-myung could be prevented from standing in the upcoming April general election.

2024.2.19

Lee In-young, Minister of Unification nominee [YONHAP]

North signals openness to working with new unification officials

North Korean state media Tuesday obliquely expressed interest in South Korea’s new lineup of diplomatic and security officials, signaling that Pyongyang may be receptive to overtures from Seoul if they came independently of the United States.

2020.7.14

Rep. Lee In-young of the Democratic Party, widely considered to be the Blue House’s pick for Unification Minister, declines to comment on his candidacy to the media at the National Assembly on June 19. [YONHAP]

Blue House eyeing former DP leader to head Unification Ministry

Former floor leader of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) Rep. Lee In-young is on the shortlist to be appointed as South Korea’s next Minister of Unification, according to ruling party sources.

2020.7.1