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.
South Korea, the U.S., and Japan should institutionalize their trilateral efforts to deter North Korea and discourage China from supporting the Kim Jong-un regime, political analysts said, Wednesday.
Tae Yong-ho, the former North Korean deputy ambassador to Britain who defected to South Korea in 2016, recently took office as the secretary general of the Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, a presidential advisory body responsible for developing a vision for peaceful unification based on national consensus.
Rival parties are still unable to reach an agreement over a special counsel probe bill into the death of a young Marine last year ahead of a contentious meeting, according to political watchers, Monday.
The ruling party and opposition camps clashed, Friday, over the prosecution’s decision to acquit first lady Kim Keon Hee of violating anti-graft laws during a meeting of the legislation and judiciary committee at the National Assembly.
On Thursday, Unification Minister Kim Yung-ho urged North Korea once again to respond to South Korea’s request for working-level consultations to initiate dialogue between the two Koreas.
A North Korean soldier defected to South Korea, Tuesday, by walking across the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) on the heavily fortified inter-Korean border. The defection occurred about two weeks after a North Korean resident crossed the maritime border in the Han River estuary on the west coast.
The leaders of Korea’s two major parties, ruling People Power Party (PPP) Chairman Han Dong-hoon and main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) Chairman Lee Jae-myung, are set to compete for centrist voters as they seek to bolster their respective political blocs.
Rep. Lee Jae-myung was reelected as chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) on Sunday, winning a landslide victory in the party's leadership race.
An ideological dispute over Korea's independence movement has intensified in politics after President Yoon Suk Yeol appointed Kim Hyoung-suk as the new director of the Independence Hall of Korea. This national museum, dedicated to the country's independence movement, has become a focal point of contention, according to political analysts and scholars.