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Jun Ji-hye

Korea Times Finance Reporter

Jun Ji-hye, a reporter at the finance desk of The Korea Times, focuses primarily on economic policy and government agencies, mainly covering the Ministry of Finance and Economy, the Ministry of Budget and Planning, the National Tax Service and the Korea Customs Service. She previously covered financial authorities, including the Financial Services Commission and the Financial Supervisory Service, and earlier worked on the political, city and business desks, reporting on a wide range of issues.

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2 DP firebrands resign from NIS probe panel

By Jun Ji-hye Reps. Kim Hyun, left, and Jin Sun-mee of the main opposition Democratic Party pose for a photo after their press conference at the National Assembly, Wednesday, at which they announced their resignation from the parliament special committee on the National Intelligence Service’s intervention in the 2012 presidential election. / YonhapTwo lawmakers of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) stepped down Wednesday from their positions as members of the National Assembly special committee currently investigating online meddling in the 2012 presidential election perpetrated by the spy agency.The ruling Saenuri Party has consistently demanded that Reps. Kim Hyun and Jin Sun-mee be excluded from the committee. “We decided to resign from the committee. We could not postpone the genuine investigation any more in accordance with the ruling party’s intentions,” said Kim and Jin at a press conference at the Assembly.They stressed that they made their decision purely for the benefit of the nation.“We just put down our titles as special comm

Jul 17, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
2 DP firebrands resign from NIS probe panel
South Korea

China asked not to deport NK escapees

Rep. Ha Tae-keung of the ruling Saenuri Party speaks at a press conference at the National Assembly, Tuesday, showing pictures of the Kim Kwang-ho family, North Korean defectors who returned to the North last year and are now under detention in China after escaping again. / Yonhap By Jun Ji-hye Family members of a North Korean defector who allegedly returned to the North last year are under detention in China while attempting to escape from the Stalinist state again, a lawmaker said Tuesday.The government is pleading Beijing to send them to Seoul.According to Rep. Ha Tae-keung of the ruling Saenuri Party, a fervent campaigner for freedom in the North, the Kim Kwang-ho family was caught by Chinese police Sunday in Jilin Province after escaping from the North.Kim and his wife settled in South after their first defection in August 2009, and then returned to the isolated state along with their daughter at the end of last year.They appeared in the North Korean Central Broadcasting Station in January and claimed: “We could no longer live in the South which is a cesspool of

Jul 16, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
China asked not to deport NK escapees
South Korea

Verbal abuse gets DP into trouble

Rep. Hong Ik-pyoRep. Kim Kyung-hyubBy Jun Ji-hye“President Park Geun-hye and her father Park Chung-hee should not have been born,” said Rep. Hong Ihk-pyo.“Governor Hong Joon-pyo of South Gyeongsang Province is no different from Adolf Hitler,” said Rep. Kim Kyung-hyub.These are bold statements that members of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) have recently said. The ruling Saenuri Party and the DP have recently been going head to head over matters related to the National Intelligence Service’s (NIS) meddling in the Dec. 19 presidential election and late President Roh Moo-hyun’s comments on the Northern Limit Line (NLL). The National Assembly investigation into the NIS is underway. The parties are set to view and disclose the original records of the 2007 inter-Korean summit to check whether or not Roh disavowed the nation’s sea border. However, the comments made by the DP members provided fodder for the ruling party to attack the opposition. And this apparently tarnished the key issue that the DP itself has stressed ― reformation o

Jul 15, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
Verbal abuse gets DP into trouble
South Korea

Original summit records unsealed

By Jun Ji-hyeMembers of political parties in the National Assembly began procedures to scrutinize the original records of the 2007 inter-Korean summit stored at the National Archives of Korea, Monday.Disclosing the confidential material is, according to the parties, the only option to settle the controversy surrounding late President Roh Moo-hyun’s alleged denial of the Northern Limit Line (NLL), a de facto sea border in the West Sea.Ten selected lawmakers visited the archives to choose material they will later view in the National Assembly.They are Reps. Hwang Jin-ha, Kim Sung-tae, Shim Yoon-joe, Kim Jin-tae and Cho Myung-chul of the ruling Saenuri Party, and Reps. Park Min-soo, Park Beom-kye, Jeon Hae-cheol, Park Nam-choon and Woo Yoon-keun of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP).Rep. Hong Ihk-pyo, former DP chairman, was initially included in the list, but was later replaced with Park Min-soo after he was criticized for his comments that President Park Geun-hye and her father Park Chung-hee should not have been born.Before entering the archives, lawmakers handed in thei

Jul 15, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
South Korea

Parties set for fresh round of battle

By Jun Ji-hye Rival parties Saturday agreed to put controversial remarks made by the main opposition party spokesman against President Park Geun-hye and her father Park Chung-hee behind them in order to handle other pending issues at the National Assembly.Rep. Hong Ihk-pyo, spokesman of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP), said last Thursday that the two Parks should not have been born, angering members of the ruling Saenuri Party.The ruling party boycotted all Assembly schedules Friday including meetings scheduled for a joint report of the parliament investigation into the closure of Jinju Medical Center (JMC) to be drawn up and to discuss matters related to the disclosure of the 2007 inter-Korean summit.However, floor leaders and vice floor leaders of the two parties reached an agreement Saturday to normalize the Assembly.The agreement came after spokesman Hong stepped down from the position and DP Chairman Kim Han-gil expressed his regret.“As a ruling party with a heavy responsibility on nation’s affairs, we decided to agree with the DP to normalize the Asse

Jul 14, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
People & Events

Cycling across US for cancer fundraising

Hong Je-won lifts his bicycle above his head for a photo at Pittsburgh, one of his destinations during his 4,188 mile-journey. / Courtesy of Hong Je-wonBy Jun Ji-hyeHong Je-won, 26, an Aerospace Engineering senior at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the only Korean among members of the Illini4000 (www.illini4000.org), a non-profit student organization at the university.Twenty two members of the body are cycling across the United States from New York to San Francisco, a total of 4,188 miles, to raise funds for cancer research and heighten public awareness about the disease.“This project is named ‘The Portrait Project’ as part of our team's mission to encourage those suffering from cancer. This journey started on May 25 and will end on July 31,” said Hong in an interview.The team has been raising over 110,000 dollars so far.“Also, on our way, we talk to people affected by cancer such as patients, their family members, doctors, nurses and care takers to have video and audio interviews. We edit and post them online.”Hong, an assistant

Jul 12, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
South Korea

Jinju Medical probe ends without results

By Jun Ji-hyeThe National Assembly investigation into the closure of Jinju Medical Center (JMC) ends today with no definite results.“The Assembly special committee for the investigation plans to hold its last meeting Friday to decide whether parties will file a complaint against Gov. Hong Joon-pyo of the province with the prosecution for rejecting to appear before the Assembly for questioning,” said an Assembly official.The committee also plans to draw up a joint report of the investigation results.The investigation was initially designed to clarify the truth of the JMC’s shut down as well as to check the general state of public hospitals’ finances to normalize the nation’s public health service.The JMC funded by the South Gyeongsang Provincial administration was shut down in May, despite strong protests from its unionized workers and opposition lawmakers, on the grounds of accumulated deficit of 27.9 billion won ($24.5 million).Lawmakers of the ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) agreed on June 13 to launch an Assembly inv

Jul 11, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
South Korea

NIS head rekindles NLL dispute

By Jun Ji-hye NIS chief Nam Jae-joonNam Jae-joon, head of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), released a statement on Wednesday claiming that the late former President Roh Moo-hyun negated the nation’s northern sea border.The statement came hours after rival parties decided to make public content of the original records of the 2007 inter-Korean summit between Roh and late North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to settle controversy surrounding the late Roh’s comments on the Northern Limit Line (NLL).This is not the first time that Nam has made a bold move. He declassified the summit minutes and released them late last month.In Wednesday’s statement that the NIS spokesman circulated to the press, Nam said: “According to the minutes, the late Roh never suggested that the South and North establish a joint fishing zone at equal distance with the NLL at the center.”“Joint fishing zones set at equal distances and areas” was what the DP says Roh suggested during the summit.“If a joint management zone is built between the ceasefire line and

Jul 11, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
NIS head rekindles NLL dispute
South Korea

Talks on spy agency probe mark time

Reps. Jin Sun-mee, left, and Kim Hyun of the main opposition Democratic Party answer reporters’ questions after their press conference at the National Assembly, Wednesday, where they said they have no intention to step down from the Assembly special committee investigating the National Intelligence Service’s (NIS) alleged interference in the presidential election. Hours earlier, the ruling Saenuri Party demanded they leave the committee, claiming they violated the rights of an NIS agent by preventing her from leaving her residence last December. / YonhapBy Jun Ji-hyeRival parties Wednesday failed to draw up a plan on how to conduct the National Assembly investigation into the spy agency’s alleged intervention in the Dec. 19 presidential election.The ruling Saenuri Party argued it will no longer cooperate with the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) unless two DP lawmakers, Kim Hyun and Jin Sun-mee, are excluded from the Assembly’s special committee on the investigation.The DP claimed that there is no reason for the two lawmakers to be excluded and the ruling

Jul 10, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
South Korea

Original summit records to be disclosed

By Jun Ji-hyeMembers of the National Assembly House Steering Committee decided Wednesday to make public content the original records of the 2007 inter-Korean summit after viewing the material stored in the National Archives of Korea.Whether to disclose the original minutes or not has been at the center of a dispute between rival parties over allegations that late President Roh Moo-hyun disavowed the Northern Limit Line (NLL) during the summit.The committee decided that 10 lawmakers (five from each party) will view the confidential records and then disclose it during a meeting of the committee. The meeting is, in principle, open to reporters.The ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) said that lawmakers will only make public content that they have both agreed to release.The parties agreed to use this method because any statements they make in the National Assembly are protected by parliamentary privilege that exempts them from civil or criminal liability.Anyone who reveals the content of confidential documents faces up to three years in prison or the suspen

Jul 10, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
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