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.
Han Dong-hoon, the former interim leader of the ruling People Power Party (PPP), who has maintained a low profile since the party's defeat in the April 10 parliamentary elections, announced his bid for party leadership Sunday, pledging to seek to reestablish a horizontal party-government relationship.
South Korea strongly condemned a new treaty signed by North Korea and Russia, which involves providing mutual defense assistance “without delay” in the event of an attack on either nation, calling it a violation of U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolutions, Thursday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un elevated their countries' bilateral relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership, Wednesday, which includes mutual assistance in the event of an attack on either nation.
North Korea has been erecting anti-tank barriers along the inter-Korean border, according to the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Tuesday, in a move to fortify its defensive positions. Separately, it has been reinforcing roads and laying landmines in the frontline area despite casualties from mine explosions there.
Medical staff of Seoul National University (SNU) Hospital chant slogans at a rally organized by the emergency response committee of medical professors at SNU Medical School in Jongno District, Seoul, Monday. Medical professors at hospitals affiliated with the school began an indefinite walkout on Monday, demanding that the government readjust a recent increase in medical school admissions. Yonhap
President Yoon Suk Yeol is pursuing real estate and inheritance tax reforms in an effort to address challenges amid low approval ratings, even though the plan will likely face setbacks in the opposition-controlled National Assembly.
A pair of dogs gifted by Turkmenistan’s president during President Yoon Suk Yeol’s state visit will arrive in Korea on Tuesday, according to the presidential office, Friday.
Korea has rolled out several comprehensive suicide prevention measures to help curb the country’s high suicide rate, the government said Friday.
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck an area near the southwestern county of Buan, North Jeolla Province, on Wednesday morning, marking the strongest tremor to be detected on the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding waters so far this year.
The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission is facing a major backlash from opposition parties following its decision to close its review regarding first lady Kim Keon Hee's luxury handbag scandal, citing the lack of a punishment clause for public officials' spouses under the anti-graft act.