Korea Times Politics & City Reporter
Anna Jiwon Park has been covering the politics at The Korea Times since the summer of 2024, when she joined the press pool for the Office of the President in Korea. Prior to that, she spent about five years reporting extensively on financial markets, regulatory authorities and the financial industry. She joined The Korea Times in 2019 after spending eight years as a broadcast journalist at Arirang TV, Korea’s leading global broadcaster, covering politics, defense and culture.
A monthly bus tour program into U.S. Army Garrison (USAG) Yongsan in the middle of Seoul is set to resume next month, the land ministry announced Monday.
President Yoon Suk Yeol said Thursday that the government will work to provide North Korean residents with more information about the outside world as part of South Korea's revised doctrine on unification.
In observance of the country's Liberation Day on Thursday, President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged to make every effort to preserve the legacy of Korea's independence heroes and ensure that their descendants receive the respect they deserve, the presidential office said, Wednesday.
While many Koreans believe their country is known around the world for K-pop or K-dramas, what actually comes to mind for people from other countries when they think of Korea is still the North Korean nuclear threat, a survey showed.
President Yoon Suk Yeol restored the civil rights of former South Gyeongsang Province Governor Kim Kyoung-soo, Tuesday, on the occasion of Aug. 15 Liberation Day, reinstating his eligibility to run for a public post.
President Yoon Suk Yeol nominated Kim Yong-hyun, the current head of the Presidential Security Service, as the nation's new defense minister, the presidential office announced, Monday.
South Korea is planning to hold its first-ever government drill that simulates North Korea's nuclear attack during the annual Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS) exercise, the country's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Monday.