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.
Former South Gyeongsang Province Gov. Kim Kyoung-soo's potential return to politics is sending ripples through the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) as factional tensions rise, according to political observers, Monday.
Kim Hyoung-suk, the newly appointed director of the Independence Hall of Korea, is facing increasing criticism for remarks that are seen as distorting history and glorifying Tokyo's imperial past.
Recent footage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's young daughter being escorted to the podium by her aunt, Kim Yo-jong, at a ceremony in Pyongyang has sparked speculation that the child may be considered her father's potential successor.
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.