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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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Judiciary panel tighter rules on lawmakers' additional jobs

By Jun Ji-hyeThe judiciary subcommittee of the National Assembly approved a bill Monday to tighten the rules on lawmakers holding extra jobs.“Lawmakers of the subcommittee agreed on prohibiting lawmakers having additional jobs such as professors at universities,” an Assembly official said.The subcommittee discussed bills proposed by the Assembly Special Committee for political reform before handing them over to its upper committee, the Assembly Steering Committee.According to the content of the mutual agreement of the subcommittee, lawmakers have to resign from their honorary positions including honorary professorships after being elected to the Assembly.However, the decision on whether to apply these changes to incumbent lawmakers in the 19th parliament was postponed, pending further consultation.Holding extra jobs has been cited as a right among legislators but some have been criticized for receiving high salaries from honorary positions, even though they do not regularly work for institutes or universities.Officials said, once passed by the Assembly, those who will be

Jun 24, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
South Korea

DP leader presses Park on NIS case

By Jun Ji-hye Rep. Kim Han-gil, chairman of the Democratic Party, reads a copy of a letter he sent to President Park Geun-hye to urge her to agree on launching a National Assembly investigation into the National Intelligence Service’s alleged meddling in the Dec. 19 presidential election, at a party Supreme Council meeting in the Assembly, Monday./ YonhapThe opposition leader Monday urged President Park Geun-hye to agree on launching a parliamentary investigation into meddling by the national spy agency in last year’s Dec. 19 presidential election.  DP leader presses Park on NIS casePresident Park responded positively to the request, saying that the suspicions surrounding the spy agency need to be cleared by the National Assembly.Rep. Kim Han-gil, chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP), called on President Park to make a decision before Thursday when she leaves for China for the Seoul-Beijing summit talks.In a letter delivered by his chief secretary Noh Woong-rae to Huh Tae-yeol, Park’s chief of staff, Kim said: “The National Intellige

Jun 24, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
DP leader presses Park on NIS case
South Korea

Assembly heading toward deadlock

By Jun Ji-hyeThe two rivaling parties’ confrontation over the nation’s spy agency’s intervention in the presidential election and late Roh Moo-hyun’s alleged denial of the Northern Limit Line’s (NLL) validity is expected to disrupt parliamentary sessions to handle bills on people’s livelihood and political reforms.The ruling Saenuri Party and the main opposition Democratic Party (DP) earlier agreed to deal with policies related to economic democratization and minimizing lawmakers’ vested rights this month. Among the bills to be considered are those to prevent unfair activities by conglomerates against their subcontractors such as the so-called “Namyang Dairy law.” The firm was accused by its sales agents in April of forcing them to buy more products than they needed as well as stocking products with very close expiry dates.The Assembly also planned to handle bills that will tighten the rules on lawmakers holding extra jobs and to review their pension benefits.However, bickering over the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the

Jun 23, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
South Korea

'Anonymous' threatens hacking on N. Korea on June 25

By Jun Ji-hyeThe hacking group Anonymous said Sunday its planned cyber attack against North Korea to gain access to its secret national intelligence including missile data will not destroy its intranet.The group gave notice in April that it will attack the North’s websites at noon on June 25 (Korean time), the anniversary of the start of the Korean War (1950-1953).“The purpose of this attack is to divulge information of the Stalinist state as well as to allow North Korean residents’ access to the Internet,” the hacker with the Twitter ID @Anonsj told Yonhap news agency.The North currently allows only a few privileged class members access to the Internet.The hacker insisted he built a “Ninja Gateway,” which he says is a path connecting the inside network in the isolated country and the external network.“So we can approach their intranet from computers outside of the North,” the hacker said, without further elaboration about how the inside and external networks have been connected and whether the group has any of its members operating fro

Jun 23, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
South Korea

Tour promotion using late Park overblown

By Jun Ji-hyeProvincial governments are competing to build memorial halls for the late President Park Chung-hee, father of President Park Geun-hye, in a bid to attract more tourists. However, their competition is showing signs of overheating, analysts said Sunday.Jun-gu District in central Seoul recently announced a plan to invest 28.6 billion won ($25 million) to build a memorial park for the former president around the house lived in for three years before taking power.However, President Park voiced her skepticism last week, saying, “It is not appropriate to use taxpayers' money for such a project amid the ongoing economic difficulties.”Despite Seoul city government’s opposition to the plan, Jung-gu Office made it clear Friday that it will try and push ahead with the plan.The city of Gumi in North Gyeongsang Province has developed a 245,000 square-meter area to build a park to commemorate the Saemaeul (New Village) Movement, which was initiated by the late Park in the 1970s. With an estimated cost of 79.2 billion won, the city plans to complete construction by 201

Jun 16, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
South Korea

Rival parties split over probe into spy agency

By Jun Ji-hyeThe opposition and ruling parties were divided Sunday over a National Assembly investigation into the spy agency’s alleged meddling in the Dec. 19 presidential election.The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) demanded an immediate investigation into the case, while the ruling Saenuri Party called for prudence.“There is no reason, legally or politically, to postpone a parliamentary investigation as the prosecution has finished its part. If the Saenuri Party does not cooperate, it means that it is an accomplice of the National Intelligence Service (NIS),” said DP lawmaker Shin Kyoung-min who chairs the party’s special committee established to investigate the allegation.In March, floor leaders of both parties agreed to launch an Assembly investigation into the case after the prosecution completed its probe.The prosecution last week concluded after two months that Won Sei-hoon, former NIS chief, violated the Election Law by ordering NIS agents to post online comments disparaging opposition candidates including Moon Jae-in and Ahn Cheol-soo. Won was

Jun 16, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
South Korea

Spy agency's election meddling burdens Park

By Jun Ji-hyeOpposition parties went all out to criticize President Park Geun-hye, Wednesday, claiming that the Dec. 19 presidential election was conducted unfairly due to meddling by the nation’s spy agency and that her justice minister prevented a fair investigation into allegations pertaining to it.The prosecution Tuesday indicted Won Sei-hoon, former chief of National Intelligence Service (NIS), without physical detention on charges of violating the Election Law. Won is accused of having directed NIS officials to engage in online activities with the aim of discrediting opposition presidential candidate Moon Jae-in. “I am in doubt as to whether a rigged election is still valid. The NIS intervened in the election and, at the time, the National Police Agency announced false investigation results saying that it could not find any evidence to prove intervention by the NIS. All these were attempts to help Park win the presidential election,” said Rep. Choi Min-hee of the main opposition Democratic Party (DP), on her Twitter account.She said that the NIS election

Jun 12, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
People & Events

Mix of culture, language key to communication

Chris Choi, founder of “Educhora”By Jun Ji-hye Chris Choi, a Korean based in New York, believes culture and language are inseparable in the development of people’s communication skills.Inspired by this idea, she helped found the cultural and linguistic consulting firm called “Educhora” (http://www.educhora.com) in 2011 and became director of the company.“We operate under the conviction that one cannot truly master a language without understanding the culture surrounding it, nor can we have fulfilling participation in a culture without sufficiently adept linguistic skills,” said Choi in an interview.She said the majority of her clients either live or do business in the United States.“We take the form of purpose-specific writing training that is conducted via emails. We also offer instructive sessions based on what we have termed ‘nodal pedagogy’, an innovative method of integrating culture and language,” said Choi.Nodal pedagogy, which she developed, exposes the client to a wide range of fun and captivating media,

Jun 12, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
Mix of culture, language key to communication
South Korea

Gov't seeks to revive incentives for reservists

By Jun Ji-hyeThe Ministry of National Defense said Tuesday that it will push to reintroduce a system of awarding bonus points to men who complete their two-year mandatory military service and then apply for civil service sector jobs ― a system which the Constitutional Court ruled to be unconstitutional in 1999.“We expect the new incentive system to avoid the issue of unconstitutionality that has been raised so far regarding the system,” said an official from the ministry. “We will propose this to the National Assembly National Defense Committee this month.”The committee plans to discuss the measure that can be put into practice by a revision to the Military Service Law in the June session of the National Assembly.The ministry wants to hire extra reservists in addition to the publicized numbers of new hires for government and public-sector workplaces.Rep. Han Ki-ho of the ruling Saenuri Party late last year proposed awarding reservists an extra 2 percentage points when they undertake recruitment examinations at government entities and public agencies with

Jun 11, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
South Korea

Parties move to reduce weekly working hours

By Jun Ji-hyeParties are set to pass a bill to reduce legally-set corporate working hours within this month’s extraordinary session in the National Assembly.The move is in line with President Park Geun-hye’s earlier pledge to raise the nation’s employment rate to 70 percent by creating 930,000 decent part-time jobs by 2017.Ten lawmakers of the ruling Saenuri Party including Rep. Kim Sung-tae, a member of the Assembly Environment and Labor Committee, proposed a revision to the Labor Standards Law at the end of last month to reduce statutory working hours to 52 hours a week from the current 68 hours.The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) has long since called for a reduction in the long working hours as one of the measures to improve working conditions for employees.Rep. Choi Kyung-hwan, floor leader of the ruling party, told reporters Monday, “Reduction of working time is the basis of creating part-time jobs and boosting the employment rate. We will intensively handle the issue in the June Assembly’s session.”DP floor leader Jun Byung-hun said th

Jun 10, 2013By Jun Ji-hye
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