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Three-term Chuncheon council member investigated after drunken disturbance at police substation

Councilmember Kim Ji-sook allegedly swore at police officers and drunkenly misbehaved after being brought to the station for failing to pay her taxi fare.

2026.7.30

Rep. Sim Sang-jeung sheds tears while announcing her retirement during a press conference held at the National Assembly in western Seoul on Thursday. [NEWS1]

Former Justice Party chief Sim Sang-jeung retires from politics

Rep. Sim Sang-jeung, former head of the minor Justice Party, announced her retirement from politics on Thursday, a day after her party failed to win a single parliamentary seat in the April 10 general election.

2024.4.11

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Shin Min-ki, spokesperson for the Daejeon wing of the Justice Party, is approached by security after he shouted at President Yoon Suk Yeol demanding a budget increase in the government’s research and development (R&D) field on Friday during the 2024 commencement ceremony held at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. [NEW1]

President Yoon heckler identified as Justice Party spokesperson

The man who heckled President Yoon Suk Yeol's speech at KAIST is a spokesperson for the Daejeon wing of the Justice Party, a minor progressive party.

2024.2.19

Justice Party floor leader Lee Eun-ju and Democratic Party floor leader Park Hong-keun during a meeting held at the National Assembly on Monday. [YONHAP]

DP, Justice Party up pressure to investigate first lady

Seoul Central District Court, which oversaw Deutsche Motors' stock manipulation case, acknowledged that three accounts belonging to the first lady and one account owned by her mother Choi Eun-soon were used in the stock manipulation.

2023.3.7

[Today's Cartoon] 02.15. 2023

After Lee Jae-myung demanded the appointment of a special counsel to investigate suspicions over stock price manipulation involving the first lady, Justice Party urged Lee to give up his privilege of not being arrested during a legislative session.

2023.2.14

Rep. Lee Jeong-mi of the minor Justice Party speaks at a demonstration by lawmakers who support a parliamentary probe into the government's handling of the Itaewon crowd crush on the steps of the National Assembly in Yeouido, central Seoul, on Thursday afternoon. [YONHAP]

DP, allies call for Assembly probe of Itaewon tragedy

The Democratic Party (DP) and two smaller parties asked for a parliamentary probe into the government's handling of the Itaewon crowd crush, which the conservative People Power Party (PPP) is calling politically motivated.

2022.11.10

Liberal activists pay respects at a makeshift memorial altar for the victims of the Itaewon tragedy near Itaewon Station in Yongsan District, central Seoul, on Thursday. They announced plans to hold a candlelight vigil to commemorate the victims on Saturday. [YONHAP]

Liberals to hold candlelight vigils for Halloween tragedy

Liberal activists are calling for candlelight vigils to honor the victims of the Itaewon tragedy and demand accountability for their deaths.

2022.11.3

Justice Party needs deep soul searching (KOR)

The Justice Party must prove its raison d’être to the voters beyond the labor, gender, inequality and polarization issues. It must present its own vision and creative solutions to a plethora of our problems.

2022.9.6

Justice Party needs deep soul searching

2022.9.5

[Today's Cartoon] 2022.09.06

The splinter Justice Party needs deep soul searching after party members voted down a recommendation for the resignation of five lawmakers elected on the proportional representation system in a general meeting of the party Monday.