Korea Times Digital Content Reporter
Kwak Yeon-soo is a digital editor at The Korea Times creating, editing and curating digital content for the newspaper’s website, mobile app and social media. She previously covered a diverse array of cultural, political and business topics.
Nearly 60 percent of international survey respondents are skeptical about the possibility of North Korea giving up its nuclear weapons as the reclusive country continues to advance its nuclear and missile programs, results showed Tuesday.
Rival parties clashed during a plenary parliamentary session, Monday, over the National Assembly’s decisions to postpone tabling a budget bill for next year and introduce a motion to impeach the chief state auditor and three prosecutors related to the relocation of the presidential office and first lady investigation.
The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea's (DPK) attempt to impeach the state auditor chief and prosecutors is drawing backlash from ruling party lawmakers and political commentators, who say that the DPK is exploiting its majority to play party politics, according to political pundits Friday.
Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul said Thursday that he takes full responsibility for a dispute surrounding Japan’s Sado mines memorial ceremony and added that the government will urge Japan to hold a sincere memorial next year to honor Korean forced laborers from the wartime period.
President Yoon Suk Yeol held closed-door talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Seoul, Wednesday, and discussed support measures for the country amid its war with Russia, according to the presidential office.
Cho Min, the daughter of former Justice Minister and current Rebuilding Korea Party Chairman Rep. Cho Kuk, launched a beauty brand called CEROLABS, according to reports.
North Korea is intensifying internal control over its military and citizens in what seems to be an effort to suppress any dissent regarding the regime's troop deployment to support Russia's war against Ukraine, the Ministry of Unification said, Tuesday.
Main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Chairman Rep. Lee Jae-myung was cleared, Monday, of charges of suborning perjury or soliciting false testimony.
The ruling and main opposition parties are wrangling over the government's spending plan for next year as the National Assembly begins deliberations on the 2025 budget, which totals 677.4 trillion won ($490.7 billion), a 3.2 percent increase from the previous year.
South Korea faces a difficult choice between providing weapons directly to Ukraine and remaining ambivalent about it until U.S. President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, while North Korean troops are being deployed to the Ukrainian front.