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Ex-university chief tapped to lead veterans ministry

Kang Jung-ai, the nominee for Korea's new veterans minister, is a former chief of a women's university in Seoul and known for her background as the daughter of a decorated veteran of the 1950-53 Korean War.

Dec 4, 2023
Ex-university chief tapped to lead veterans ministry
  • Yoon replaces 6 Cabinet ministers, including finance minister
  • President names new finance, land ministers in Cabinet shake-up

Ex-chief of state housing developer LH nominated as land minister

Land Minister nominee Park Sang-woo is a former career government official recognized for his expertise in housing and land policy, having served as the head of the state-run Korea Land & Housing (LH).

Dec 4, 2023
Ex-chief of state housing developer LH nominated as land minister
  • Yoon replaces 6 Cabinet ministers, including finance minister
  • President names new finance, land ministers in Cabinet shake-up

Yoon replaces 6 Cabinet ministers, including finance minister

President Yoon Suk Yeol carried out a partial Cabinet reshuffle Monday, replacing the finance minister with one of his senior secretaries and naming five other people to ministerial posts mainly handling economic affairs.

Dec 4, 2023
Yoon replaces 6 Cabinet ministers, including finance minister
  • Ex-chief of state housing developer LH nominated as land minister
  • Ex-university chief tapped to lead veterans ministry
  • Veteran economic technocrat to lead Korea's economic, financial affairs

Rival parties call for measures after China halts urea exports

The rival parties called Monday for the government to come up with countermeasures against Beijing's recent halt in urea exports to Korea, voicing concerns it could lead to another urea crisis.

Dec 4, 2023
Rival parties call for measures after China halts urea exports

President appoints new spokesperson

President Yoon Suk Yeol approved the appointment of Kim Soo-kyung, the presidential secretary for unification affairs as the new presidential spokesperson, Sunday.

Dec 3, 2023By Kim Hyun-bin
President appoints new spokesperson

Tensions rise as opposition demands special probe into first lady

Tension between the ruling People Power Party (PPP) and the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is deepening as the latter is pushing for special counsel probes into issues unfavorable to the ruling party and the government, including a stock manipulation case allegedly involving first lady Kim Keon Hee.

Dec 3, 2023By Jun Ji-hye
Tensions rise as opposition demands special probe into first lady

Rep. Lee Sang-min quits Democratic Party of Korea

A five-term lawmaker quit the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) on Sunday, claiming the DPK has become a personal party of leader Lee Jae-myung with pro-Lee extremist members exercising too much influence.

Dec 3, 2023
Rep. Lee Sang-min quits Democratic Party of Korea

Is ruling party's reform drive at end of road?

In what he called an “ultimatum,” Ihn Yo-han, chief of the ruling People Power Party’s (PPP) innovation committee, demanded on Thursday the right to nominate its candidates for the April 10 general elections, saying he would wait for an answer by Dec. 4.

Dec 1, 2023By Jung Min-ho
Is ruling party's reform drive at end of road?

Tension mounts between Yoon administration, opposition party

Tension is rising between the Yoon Suk Yeol administration and the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) as the main opposition party’s attempt to impeach a controversial broadcasting watchdog chief forced him to resign, while the president vetoed a DPK-pushed labor bill.

Dec 1, 2023By Nam Hyun-woo
Tension mounts between Yoon administration, opposition party
  • Yoon accepts resignation offer of head of state broadcasting watchdog

Ex-DPK leader Song to be questioned next week over cash-for-vote scandal

Song Young-gil, a former leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, will appear before prosecutors next week for his first questioning in an investigation into a cash-for-votes scandal surrounding the party's 2021 leadership election, sources said Friday.

Dec 1, 2023
Ex-DPK leader Song to be questioned next week over cash-for-vote scandal
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