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.
The South Korean government warned, Thursday, that North Korean Olympians receiving Samsung Electronics' smartphones could be violating U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolutions concerning Pyongyang's nuclear weapons and missile programs.
President Yoon Suk Yeol is expected to confront several significant challenges, including addressing the market rout and implementing the promised reforms, when he returns from vacation.
Han Seo-hee, who fled North Korea in October 2006 and settled in South Korea in March 2007, was reluctant at first when her father said they should “leave this country.” Her brother had already fled to South Korea with his girlfriend, whom their parents disapproved of.
National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik urged the government, Tuesday, to disclose the entire process of negotiations surrounding UNESCO's listing of Japan’s Sado mines, a controversial site linked to the wartime forced labor of Koreans.
Han Dong-hoon, the newly elected leader of the ruling People Power Party (PPP), has appointed his loyalists to key positions within the party's decision-making body, aiming to strengthen his grip over the party.
The National Assembly will likely be locked in partisan conflict for the foreseeable future, with the legislative process trapped in a vicious circle of the majority-holding opposition party tabling controversial bills unilaterally, the ruling party staging filibusters in protest and President Yoon Suk Yeol exercising his veto power.
Opposition parties proposed an impeachment motion against Lee Jin-sook, the new chief of the state broadcasting watchdog, Thursday, accusing her of abusing her power in the appointment of board members at major public broadcasters.
President Yoon Suk Yeol appointed Lee Jin-sook, a former reporter at public broadcaster MBC, as the new chief of the state broadcasting watchdog, Wednesday, amid fierce protests by the opposition.
The opposition-controlled National Assembly has passed four bills aimed at reducing the government’s influence over public broadcasters, after ending a six-day filibuster by the ruling People Power Party (PPP).
The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) vowed to press ahead with its plan to pass four contentious broadcasting bills aimed at reducing the government’s influence over public broadcasters, despite strong protest from the ruling People Power Party (PPP).