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YouTube, a new conservative-liberal battle ground

A growing number of politicians here are taking to YouTube to convey their opinions and gain loyalty, unfettered by physical and time constraints. With the platform rising as a battleground for cons...

Jan 6, 2019
Politics
Opposition demands president’s apology over U-turn on presidential office relocation

Opposition parties have criticized the government’s decision to withdraw its plan to relocate the presidential office to Gwanghwamun, one of President Moon Jae-in’s key election pledges stressing the...

Jan 6, 2019
Politics
Liberty Korea Party wages war on KBS, citing threat to democracy and the Constitution

South Korea’s main conservative party strikes country’s biggest broadcaster citing “bias toward” the ruling party’s administration

Jan 4, 2019
Politics
Moon mulling secretariat reshuffle: reports

South Korean Ambassador to China Noh Young-min may replace Im Jong-seok as President Moon Jae-in’s chief of staff in a presidential secretariat reshuffle some time before the Lunar New Year, local me...

Jan 4, 2019
Politics
Moon's approval rating rebounds amid optimism for peace: poll

President Moon Jae-in's approval rating posted its first rebound in four weeks this week, a poll showed Thursday, amid optimism about rapprochement on the Korean Peninsula in the new year. Moon's su...

Jan 3, 2019
Politics
TV-friendly liberal politician-turned-writer begins podcast Friday

Rhyu Si-min, a liberal politician-turned-writer, starts a podcast Friday, with an aim to fight “fake news” after firebrand conservative politician Hong Joon-pyo’s YouTube channel Hong-ka Cola attract...

Jan 3, 2019
Politics
Moon's chief policy adviser met with conglomerates' executives last year

President Moon Jae-in's chief policy adviser and the vice chief of a presidential advisory panel held a closed-door meeting with executives of Samsung Group and other conglomerates in late December, ...

Jan 3, 2019
Politics
Govt. to create 610,000 jobs for seniors in 2019

The government on Thursday outlined its plan to create 610,000 jobs for senior citizens this year as part of its ongoing effort to deal with the country's fast aging population. The Ministry of Heal...

Jan 3, 2019
Politics
Ex-dictator’s wife calls husband ‘father of democracy’

Lee Soon-ja hailed her husband and former South Korea dictator Chun Doo-hwan as the “father of democracy” during an interview Tuesday with a right-wing online publication, drawing criticism from poli...

Jan 2, 2019
Politics
Moon says peace will open new horizons for Korean economy

President Moon Jae-in on Wednesday once again stressed the importance of peace on the peninsula, saying peace will lay the foundations for economic expansion for South Korea. “The peace that we have...

Jan 2, 2019
Politics
Incumbent, former PMs narrow gap in poll of prospective presidential candidates

The gap between Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon and former Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn has narrowed in a new popularity poll of South Korea's prospective presidential candidates, a pollster said Wednesda...

Jan 2, 2019
Politics
Moon highlights peace in New Year’s message

President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday vowed to establish “irreversible peace” on the Korean Peninsula and to improve quality of life for the Korean people. “(I) will make peace irreversible so that peace...

Jan 1, 2019
Politics
President Moon vows 'irreversible' peace in Korea

South Korea President Moon Jae-in pledged efforts Tuesday for "irreversible" peace on the peninsula in 2019. (Yonhap) In his New Year's message, posted on a social networking site, Moon said he "wa...

Jan 1, 2019
Politics
2019, a year of challenges and uncertainties for Korea

For South Korea, 2019 is likely to be a year full of difficult tasks, involving issues ranging from diplomacy and North Korea to economic, social and political matters. The goals of achieving denucl...

Dec 31, 2018
Politics
No surveillance of civilians under Moon govt: presidential aide

President Moon Jae-in's secretary for civil affairs said Monday that the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae has not surveilled civilians for political purposes, shrugging off a former investigator's s...

Dec 31, 2018
Politics

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