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The Democratic Party is repeating MBC’s lose-lose struggle

The DP's escalating factional battle is repeating MBC’s cycle of retaliation, disillusionment and public distrust.

2026.7.12

The election commission scandal and the disappearance of politics (KOR)

The NEC deserves scrutiny, but the ballot shortage crisis also revealed how partisan reactions threatened public trust and raised the risk of an election invalidation fight.

2026.6.15

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The election commission scandal and the disappearance of politics

The NEC deserves scrutiny, but the ballot shortage crisis also revealed how partisan reactions threatened public trust and raised the risk of an election invalidation fight.

2026.6.14

Power corrupts

Keum Tae-sup, a former lawmaker from the Democratic Party (DP), left the ruling party on Wednesday. In a letter of resignation, the prosecutor-turned-politician said he was leaving the party out of utter despair about its double...

2020.10.21

Keum Tae-sup, former lawmaker of the Democratic Party (DP). [YONHAP]

Keum Tae-sup ditches DP, may run for Seoul mayor

Keum Tae-sup, a former lawmaker for the ruling Democratic Party (DP), relinquished his party membership Wednesday — quickly emerging as a prime candidate in next year’s Seoul mayoral by-election.

2020.10.21

Holier-than-thou

Members of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) rarely go against party lines. Former DP Rep. Keum Tae-sup once tried — and got penalized for it. Yet even as the vast majority of DP lawmakers speak with one voice, there are two...

2020.7.19

Keum Tae-sup attends a general assembly of lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Party on Feb. 18. The party recently punished Keum, now a former lawmaker, for abstaining from voting on a bill to establish a new investigation agency for senior public servants instead of supporting it. [YONHAP]

Punished for bucking DP, ex-lawmaker cries foul

Keum Tae-sup, a former lawmaker in the ruling Democratic Party (DP), cried foul Wednesday after the party decided to punish him for abstaining from a December party-line vote to approve a bill establishing a new investigative agency.

2020.6.3

Arrogant and domineering (KOR)

Keum Tae-sup, former lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), has been punished for voting across party lines. After abstaining from voting on a controversial...

2020.6.2

Arrogant and domineering

Keum Tae-sup, former lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party (DP), has been punished for voting across party lines. After abstaining from voting on a controversial DP-proposed bill authorizing the government to establish an extraordinary...