All expressways across South Korea will be toll-free during next week's Chuseok holiday, officials said Saturday.The three-day toll-free period is set to begin on Tuesday, a day before South Koreans celebrate Chuseok, the Korean equivalent of Thanksgiving. Many motorists use expressways
Who said President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea is not friendly with the United States Forces in Korea? This appears to be wholly untrue because President Moon is seeking increased military cooperation with the US as well as promotion of interaction and collaboration with the US in the econo
President Moon Jae-in recently called for all-out efforts to fight corruption in both the public and private sectors, noting graft may be limiting the country's growth potential.The Republic of Korea is notorious for the world’s worst income gaps among the different strata of people. It is the h
President Moon Jae-in will hold a special meeting with the leaders of the ruling and opposition parties this week to discuss bipartisan efforts to end North Korea's nuclear ambitions, an official from the presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Tuesday.The meeting will be held over dinner Wednesd
U.S. President Donald Trump responded in a non-negative way to President Moon Jae-in's decision to provide humanitarian assistance to North Korea when he held a trilateral summit with Moon and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, a presidential official said Friday.Senior press secretary Yoon You
South Korea's parliament approved President Moon Jae-in's pick for Supreme Court chief justice on Thursday, ending a month of partisan bickering over his ideological orientation and avoiding the risk of another judicial leadership void.Of the 298 lawmakers present for the vote on Kim Meong-s
Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon said Tuesday he will file a complaint with the prosecution seeking an inquiry into former President Lee Myung-bak for his role in an alleged smear campaign against him led by the state spy agency.His remark comes as an internal task force of the National Intelligence Servic
South Korean President Moon Jae-in agreed Monday with his French and Australian counterparts to work together to lure North Korea back to dialogue through "top-level sanctions and pressure" and peacefully address the nuclear standoff, Seoul's presidential office said.In separate phone calls wi
The ruling party leader on Monday reiterated her opposition to growing calls for South Korea's nuclear armament, saying North Korea's nuclear standoff must be settled through political and diplomatic means.Choo Mi-ae of the Democratic Party aligned her position with that of the government, a
President Moon Jae-in's approval rating saw a substantial dip from last month as the government faces an increasing security dilemma over North Korea's nuclear brinkmanship, according to a poll released Sunday.According to the poll conducted by the Korea Society Opinion Institute (KSOI), 78.
The main opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) is shoring up its push for the redeployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula, in a move largely seen as strengthening its political position against the ruling Democratic Party with the controversial proposal.Rep. Kim Kwang-lim, w
The main opposition Liberty Korea Party accused President Moon Jae-in on Saturday of sending the wrong signal that the U.S. THAAD missile defense system can be withdrawn at any time, a day after Moon said this week's deployment of additional launchers is only tentative.South Korea has installed
The temporary deployment of the U.S. missile defense system in South Korea is necessary to defend the country from North Korean provocations, and also to force the communist state to return to the dialogue table, a ranking official from Seoul's presidential office Cheong Wa Dae said Friday.The o
The leader of the ruling Democratic Party weighed in Friday to dampen mounting opposition calls for South Korea's nuclear armament, warning it would only "do more harm than good."After North Korea conducted an intercontinental ballistic missile test in July and its sixth nuclear experiment Sun
President Moon Jae-in's approval rating dropped to the lowest level since his inauguration about four months ago, a poll showed Friday, amid growing security concerns following North Korea's latest nuclear test.In a weekly survey conducted by Gallup Korea, 72 percent of the respondents said
The ruling party and anti-trust watchdog agreed Friday to toughen measures to protect local small enterprises from larger companies' technology extortion, amid the government drive to stamp out unfair business practices.During their policy consultation, the Democratic Party and Fair Trade Commis
A bipartisan group of American lawmakers Thursday urged President Donald Trump to keep the U.S. free trade agreement with South Korea amid a deepening security crisis on the Korean Peninsula.In a letter addressed to the president, four co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Korea underscored the i
President Moon Jae-in returned home Thursday after his two-day visit to Vladivostok for a regional economic summit and talks with other global leaders, including his Russian counterpart, on ways to rein in North Korea's nuclear and missile developments.Moon's trip to the Russian city followe
A Seoul court on Friday refused to issue arrest warrants for two retired officials of the state intelligence agency suspected of interfering in the 2012 presidential election.The Seoul Central District Court turned down the prosecution's request for writs for ex-National Intelligence Service (NI
The main opposition Liberty Korea Party said Thursday that it will send a delegation to the United States to drum up support for its drive for the redeployment of U.S. tactical nuclear weapons to the Korean Peninsula.Rep. Kim Gwang-lim, the party's policy chief, said that the delegation will mee