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PPP interim chief caught discussing ex-leader's expulsion in text messages

People Power Party (PPP) emergency committee chief Chung Jin-suk's mobile phone shows a conversation he had with the party's ethics committee member Rep. Yoo Sang-bum, Monday. YonhapA text conversation between senior members of the ruling People Power Party (PPP) discussing the possibility of expelling former Chairman Lee Jun-seok was caught on press cameras Monday, raising speculation the party may hand down the heaviest disciplinary action in an upcoming meeting.The text messages, caught on press cameras during a general meeting of lawmakers, shows emergency committee chief Chung Jin-suk and Rep. Yoo Sang-bum, a member of the party's ethics committee, discussing disciplinary action against Lee. In the messages, Chung said the party should take heavy disciplinary action against Lee, while Yoo said the party should expel him if he is indicted over allegations that he received sexual bribery and attempted to cover it up.The conversation was caught one day after the PPP began a second disciplinary process against Lee for making remarks hurting his own party. In the first disciplinary a

Sep 19, 2022
PPP interim chief caught discussing ex-leader's expulsion in text messages

Leonardo poised to offer multi-solutions for national security at DX Korea

The Korean Navy's AW-159 Wildcat maritime helicopter conducts an anti-submarine warfare exercise with a frigate. Courtesy of LeonardoItalian firm deepens ties with Korean partners By Kang Seung-wooLeonardo, an Italian company specializing in aerospace, defense and security, is coming to Korea to participate in Defense Expo Korea (DX Korea) with a view to extending its offers to help Seoul boost its national security. DX Korea is a biennial defense fair and it is scheduled to take place Wednesday through Sunday at KINTEX in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province. Although the Korean military has been heavily relying on U.S. military equipment, the Italian firm, headquartered in Rome, has been maintaining deep relations with Korea for more than half a century by providing advanced tailor-made solutions to its customers from individual products to integrated systems and platforms.For example, Korea has operated Leonardo technologies including helicopters, radars, communication and surveillance systems for airborne and naval applications and naval defense systems since the early 1990s. In addition, i

Sep 19, 2022By Kang Seung-woo
Leonardo poised to offer multi-solutions for national security at DX Korea

PPP interim chief caught discussing ex-leader's expulsion in text messages

This photo of ruling People Power Party emergency committee chief Chung Jin-suk's mobile phone shows a conversation he had with the party's ethics committee member Rep. Yoo Sang-bum, Sept. 19. YonhapA text conversation between senior members of the ruling People Power Party (PPP) discussing the possibility of expelling former Chairman Lee Jun-seok was caught on press cameras Monday, raising speculation the party may hand down the heaviest disciplinary action in an upcoming meeting.The text messages, caught on press cameras during a general meeting of lawmakers, shows emergency committee chief Chung Jin-suk and Rep. Yoo Sang-bum, a member of the party's ethics committee, discussing disciplinary action against Lee. In the messages, Chung said the party should take heavy disciplinary action against Lee, while Yoo said the party should expel him if he is indicted over allegations that he received sexual bribery and attempted to cover it up.The conversation was caught one day after the PPP began a second disciplinary process against Lee for making remarks hurting his own party. In the fir

Sep 19, 2022
PPP interim chief caught discussing ex-leader's expulsion in text messages

PPP launches task force against Moon's solar panels project

Ruling People Power Party Emergency Committee Chairman Chung Jin-suk, center, talks to party members on his way to attend a party meeting at the National Assembly, Sept. 19. YonhapThe ruling People Power Party (PPP) launched a task force aimed at uncovering alleged corruption in the spending of government funds set aside to promote the installation of solar panels to enhance renewable energy generation in the previous administration.The move follows recent findings by the Office of Government Policy Coordination under the prime minister that identified 2,267 cases of irregularities over their use of the electricity industry funds over the past five years.An investigation of 12 out of 226 local governments showed that 261.6 billion won ($188.3 million) of government money was misappropriated under the renewable energy promotion project pursued under the previous Moon Jae-in administration.President Yoon Suk-yeol called the findings "deplorable" last week. (Yonhap)

Sep 19, 2022
PPP launches task force against Moon's solar panels project

ANALYSIS Friendshoring or protectionism?

'Seoul should ask Washington to remain responsible ally'By Kim Yoo-chulMaintaining close relationships requires sacrifice ― but sacrifice means little when partners aren't mutually supportive.For relationships ― person-to-person, party-to-party, even country-to-country ― to work, interested parties must sometimes make sacrifices for the greater good.If parties feel backed by their allies, then sacrifices made would be more an act of good faith. But South Korean business executives and politicians are becoming increasingly frustrated about recent announcements by the U.S. Joe Biden administration that are supposedly aimed at strengthening U.S. manufacturing for supply chain resilience and affordable chips, batteries and pharmaceuticals. South Korea is already one of the top foreign direct investors (FDIs) in the United States.The bilateral alliance between Seoul and Washington is founded in a common sacrifice and shared will. South Korea is a big supporter of the Biden administration's intention to work with “like-minded allies” to construct more stable supply chain system

Sep 19, 2022By Kim Yoo-chul
[ANALYSIS] Friendshoring or protectionism?

5-term lawmaker Joo Ho-young elected ruling party's new floor leader

A photo of ruling People Power Party's new floor leader Rep. Joo Ho-young / YonhapThe ruling People Power Party (PPP) on Monday elected five-term lawmaker Joo Ho-young as its new floor leader.Joo beat two-term lawmaker Lee Yong-ho with 61 out of 106 votes at a general meeting of PPP lawmakers.Joo will serve as floor leader until April 2023.His election came less than a month after a court suspended his duties as the PPP's emergency leadership committee chair on Aug. 26, a decision seen as a victory for former party Chairman Lee Jun-seok in a duel against mainstream PPP members close to President Yoon Suk-yeol.The PPP has since launched a new emergency committee led by Vice National Assembly Speaker Chung Jin-suk.The PPP, however, has yet to completely overcome the crisis, as Lee has filed another injunction suit against Chung's leadership. The Seoul Southern District Court is set to hold a hearing on the case later this month.Joo is considered a moderate conservative politician less close with Yoon compared with former floor leader Rep. Kweon Seong-dong. Kweon is considered one of th

Sep 19, 2022
5-term lawmaker Joo Ho-young elected ruling party's new floor leader

Yoon's approval rating edges up for 2nd consecutive week: poll

President Yoon Suk-yeol, center, presides over a meeting on a Korean presidential airplane, Sept. 19. YonhapPresident Yoon Suk-yeol's approval rating rose for the second consecutive week thanks in part to the government's efforts on improving the economy and people's livelihoods, a poll showed Monday. In the poll of 2,015 voters conducted by Realmeter from Tuesday to Friday, 34.4 percent positively assessed Yoon's handling of state affairs, up 1.8 percentage points from the previous poll, while 63.2 percent gave a negative assessment, down 1.4 percentage points. This marks the second consecutive week Yoon's approval rating rose in a Realmeter poll."Public support for Yoon appears to have become stable as he focused on bettering the economy and people's livelihoods while staying away from political issues," a senior analyst at Realmeter said.The president's future approval rating could change according to results he brings on pending issues, including the bio and semiconductor industry, currency swap with the United States and forced labor issue with Japan, from his three-nation trip

Sep 19, 2022
Yoon's approval rating edges up for 2nd consecutive week: poll

Yoon decries predecessor's NK policy, stresses S. Korea-US deterrence: NYT

President Yoon Seok-yeol speaks to a group of military service personnel dispatched overseas on the occasion of the Chuseok holiday via video links at his office in Seoul, Sept. 10. YonhapSouth Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has criticized his liberal predecessor Moon Jae-in's dovish approach to North Korea as "being obsessed with only one friend," while stressing his focus on deterrence to counter evolving threats from the recalcitrant regime, The New York Times reported Sunday.During the interview, the president expressed his thoughts on Moon's diplomacy toward Pyongyang through summitry, and Moon's stance between Washington and Beijing, which he described as "political show" and "too ambiguous," respectively. "(Yoon) compared Mr. Moon to a 'student obsessed with only one friend in his classroom: North Korea,'" the newspaper said in an apparent reference to Moon's largely unfruitful push for inter-Korean rapprochement and peace on the Korean Peninsula.On the policy stance between the United States and China, Yoon highlighted his pursuit of more clarity."I will pursue predictability

Sep 19, 2022
Yoon decries predecessor's NK policy, stresses S. Korea-US deterrence: NYT

Ruling party's ethics committee decides on additional punishment for ex-leader

Former People Power Party (PPP) Chairman Lee Jun-seok, center, leaves the Seoul Southern District Court, Sept. 14, after a hearing on an injunction suspending the enforcement of disciplinary measures against him based on the PPP constitution. YonhapBy Kwon Mee-yooThe ruling People Power Party (PPP) held an emergency ethics committee meeting, Sunday afternoon, and decided to take additional disciplinary measures against its former chairman, Lee Jun-seok. Lee has been under fire for his harsh words against President Yoon Suk-yeol as well as the party. He is also embroiled in a sexual bribery case and questioned by police Saturday for about 12 hours over allegations of receiving sexual services twice in exchange for favors in 2013. In July, the PPP held an ethics committee meeting and suspended Lee's party membership for six months over the bribery investigation, ultimately depriving him of his chairpersonship. Lee Yang-hee, chairperson of the PPP's committee, said a disciplinary procedure is now open over the former chairman's "insulting, reprehensive" words against the party members,

Sep 18, 2022By Kwon Mee-yoo
Ruling party's ethics committee decides on additional punishment for ex-leader

Presidential office says 'no change' in planned Korea-Japan summit during UN General Assembly

President Yoon Suk-yeol, left, in front of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization member nations in Madrid, June 29. YonhapThe Korean presidential office said Sunday there's "no change" in the plan to hold a Korea-Japan summit meeting this week on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in New York.A ranking presidential official made the remarks in a phone call with Yonhap News Agency, rejecting Japanese news reports on Sunday that the possibility of the summit meeting between President Yoon Suk-yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida remains uncertain. The presidential office announced last week the summit between Yoon and Kishida, the first summit between the two countries in nearly three years, has been agreed upon, and will be held on either Tuesday or Wednesday in New York. "I haven't heard that there's any change in matters related with the Korea-Japan summit agreed upon for the occasion of the U.N. General Assembly," the presidential official said. Another presidential official added the two countries

Sep 18, 2022
Presidential office says 'no change' in planned Korea-Japan summit during UN General Assembly
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