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.
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).
The conflict between rival parties escalated on Friday during a second parliamentary hearing on an online petition calling for the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol.
The National Assembly rejected and scrapped a bill to launch a special counsel probe into allegations surrounding the death of a Marine during a parliamentary revote Thursday.
Han Dong-hoon, who has been elected to lead the People Power Party (PPP), faces a range of daunting tasks, most notably repairing the relationship with the presidential office, addressing factional infighting within the party and countering the opposition's legislation push for contentious bills, political watchers said Wednesday.
The ruling People Power Party (PPP) elected former interim leader Han Dong-hoon as its new chief, Tuesday, entrusting him with the task of reforming the party in the wake of its stinging defeat in the April 10 parliamentary elections.
Prosecutor General Lee One-seok said, Monday, he believes there was "preferential treatment" in the prosecution’s Saturday questioning of first lady Kim Keon Hee over her luxury handbag scandal and alleged involvement in a stock manipulation case.
First lady Kim Keon Hee was interrogated by prosecutors over allegations that she illegally accepted a luxury handbag from a Korean American pastor and was involved in a stock manipulation scheme, according to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Sunday,