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Blanked Saenuri reformers prepare to flee the partyPoliticsDec 20, 2016The plausibility on the ruling Saenuri Party splitting took shape Tuesday as reformist nonmainstreamers gestured at defecting, following the pro-presidential group’s refusal to compromise over the in... -
Saenuri lawmakers face perjury claimsPoliticsDec 19, 2016The ongoing parliamentary probe into the influence-peddling scandal involving President Park Geun-hye and her confidante Choi Soon-sil was hit Monday by allegations that lawmakers of the ruling Saenu... -
Moon vows to undo Park's key external policiesPoliticsDec 16, 2016Moon Jae-in, the current front-runner in the race for the next presidency of South Korea, vowed Thursday to reconsider several key foreign policies of impeached President Park Geun-hye, should he be ... -
Impeachment vote as it happenedPoliticsDec 9, 2016To impeach the embattled head of state, at least 200 lawmakers from the 300-member National Assembly need to support the motion. Currently, opposition parties, which led the impeachment drive, togeth... -
Opposition threatens to quit if vote failsPoliticsDec 8, 2016South Korea’s parliament will decide Friday whether to impeach President Park Geun-hye, with opposition lawmakers threatening to quit en masse if the vote fails. In their full-fledged efforts to pus... -
Niece of Choi Soon-sil turns up in parliamentary hearingPoliticsDec 7, 2016Jang Si-ho, the niece of President Park Geun-hye’s confidante Choi Soon-sil, appeared at parliamentary hearing Wednesday about 3:30 p.m. after previously refusing to attend, citing poor health. The ... -
Park aides face parliamentary hearing on influence-peddling scandalPoliticsDec 7, 2016The second day of the parliamentary inquiry into President Park Geun-hye’s scandal on Wednesday produced little new information about Park and her longtime friend Choi Soon-sil who is accused of medd... -
Park’s former chief of staff denies allPoliticsDec 7, 2016Former Presidential Chief of Staff Kim Ki-choon on Wednesday claimed no knowledge of any irregularities in the country’s highest office during a parliamentary hearing on a sweeping scandal that threa... -
CJ Group admits to being pressured to remove Vice ChairwomanPoliticsDec 6, 2016CJ Group Co-chairman Sohn Kyoung-shik said Tuesday that Cheong Wa Dae had pressured its Vice Chairman Lee Mie-kyung to quit. Testifying before a bipartisan panel of lawmakers in a hearing at the Nat... -
What if impeachment fails?PoliticsDec 5, 2016Tension is mounting in South Korea’s political arena, with the crucial vote on President Park Geun-hye’s impeachment scheduled for Friday. The opposition coalition is vowing to spare nothing to ensu... -
Urban newlyweds less likely to have children than in rural couplesSocial affairsDec 4, 2016Newly married couples in rural areas are more likely to have children than those in cities, a study showed Sunday. According to an award-winning paper released by Jeon Sae-ran and Lee Myeong-hoon of... -
Public anger directed at politicians failing to remove ParkPoliticsDec 4, 2016Politicians on both sides of the aisle have become the target of public anger for their collective failure to cope with a scandal engulfing President Park Geun-hye. Above all, lawmakers of the rulin... -
UN chief unlikely to join ruling Saenuri PartyPoliticsDec 1, 2016UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is unlikely to join the ruling Saenuri Party after he returns to South Korea in mid-January, local media reported Thursday based on a purported dialogue between Ban’s... -
Fire guts Daegu market, no casualties reportedSocial affairsNov 30, 2016A fire broke out in the southern city of Daegu early Wednesday, gutting over 800 stores in the city’s biggest street market. No casualties were reported. According to local authorities, the blaze st... -
Park‘s history textbook plan faces uncertaintyEducationNov 29, 2016Opposition parties on Tuesday said that the Education Ministry should be abolished if it pushes ahead with the planned introduction of the controversial state-authored history textbook. Calling it t...
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