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Supreme Court expected to make ruling on conscientious objectors

The Supreme Court is expected to make a ruling on conscientious objectors who refuse mandatory military service, amid increasing acquittals made by lower courts. According to the Supreme Court on Mo...

Presidential office says it may review introducing moratorium on death penalty

The presidential office said Tuesday it will review a moratorium on the nation’s death penalty system if the state human rights watchdog officially makes a request. The National Human Rights Commiss...

Today
Social affairs
[News Focus] Small political parties struggle to get their voices heard

While this year’s June 13 local elections ended in a landslide victory for the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, small, extra-parliamentary parties made some eye-catching progress. Seoul mayoral can...

June 18, 2018
Politics
Police to look into Gyeonggi governor-elect’s alleged extramarital affair

Police have started an investigation into a scandal involving Gyeonggi Gov.-elect Lee Jae-myung who allegedly had an extramarital affair with an actress, after receiving the case from the Suwon Distr...

June 17, 2018
Politics
Incheon citizens to file class action suit against lawmaker for disparaging remark

Rep. Chung Tae-ok, a former spokesman for the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, may soon face a class action suit from a group of citizens against his remarks defaming two cities, Incheon and Buch...

June 17, 2018
Politics
[News Analysis] Conservative leaders resign after election debacle

Chairman Hong Joon-pyo of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party and Yoo Seong-min, co-chairman of the center-right minor opposition Bareunmirae Party, resigned from their positions Thursday, taking...

June 14, 2018
Politics
[2018 Local Elections] Turnout rate records second highest at 60.2 percent

The tentative voter turnout at this year’s local and gubernatorial elections is 60.2 percent, recording the second highest figure ever for local elections, the election watchdog said on Wednesday. A...

June 13, 2018
Politics
[2018 Local Elections] A numerical look at local elections

In the quadrennial local and gubernatorial elections and by-elections this year, South Korea is electing 4,028 local administrative, legislative and educational officials, and 9,363 candidates made t...

June 13, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] South Koreans hope Trump-Kim meeting brings lasting peace

With the world watching US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hold a historic summit in Singapore on Tuesday, the eyes and ears of South Koreans were fixed to the live TV foot...

June 12, 2018
North Korea
[2018 Local elections] 100,000 foreign resident voters miss out on election information

South Korea became the first country in Asia to allow voting rights to foreign residents in local elections in 2005. At this year’s local elections on June 13, over 100,000 non-Korean nationals are e...

June 11, 2018
Politics
[2018 Local elections] Vandalism of feminist Seoul mayor candidate’s poster continues

Since official local elections campaign kicked off on May 31, Seoul mayoral candidate Shin Ji-ye of the minor Green Party Korea saw dozens of her campaign posters damaged and deliberately taken down....

June 8, 2018
Politics
[Newsmaker] Ruling party enjoys sweeping lead in parliamentary by-elections

As two-day early voting period for the June 13 local elections kicked off on Friday, citizens in 12 regions are also casting additional votes for their parliamentary representatives. The results of ...

June 8, 2018
Politics
[2018 Local elections] Naturalized Korean says Korea needs to embrace multicultural families

Life in South Korea has never been easy for Hwang Eun-hwa, who came to the country in 1996 from China with the “Korean dream,” married a Korean man and became a naturalized citizen. When she arrived...

June 7, 2018
Politics
[2018 Local election] Third-generation Hwagyo seeks to bring harmony

During her childhood, Yang Li-ly had always felt she was deprived of something. Yang is a third-generation Hwagyo -- ethnic Chinese and Taiwanese living in Korea -- holding Korean citizenship. She wa...

June 7, 2018
Politics
Civic lawyer groups file petition to UN over top court’s alleged power abuse

Progressive civic groups on Thursday filed a petition to the United Nations human rights body over the alleged abuse of authority by former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae. Lawyers for a D...

June 7, 2018
Social affairs

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