Voter casts a vote pick South Korea's new president in Seoul, South Korea on March 9, 2022. (Photo by James Lee/Xinhua) The election to select the next president will last from 6:00 a.m. local time (2100 GMT Tuesday) to 6:00 p.m. (0900 GMT Wednesday) at 14,464 polling station...
South Korea’s parliament on Saturday voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree earlier this month, leaving the country politically paralysed until the Constitutional Court ratifies the move, while jubilant crowds celebrated the resilience of the ...
South Korea, March 9, 2022. Polls began early Wednesday nationwide to pick South Korea's new president amid a neck-and-neck race between candidates of the ruling Democratic Party and the main conservative opposition People Power Party.
South Korea votes for new president
and South Korea in the face of North Korea’s recent nuclear tests. The declaration gives South Korea a strategic role in a potential American nuclear strategy against North Korea, in exchange for South Korea not acquiring its own nuclear arsenal. “President Biden and I adopted a joint ...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's party said on Sunday it had "effectively obtained" a promise from the leader to step down, despite the fact that he survived an impeachment vote on Saturday hours after making a public apology for briefly imposing m
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New president offers olive branch at inauguration Moon offers South Korea stability after turmoil ———– Mr Moon must now decide whether or not to dismantle the defence battery. “It will be difficult for Moon to withdraw the Thaad deployment,” said Mr Kim. “Moon is more likely to come ...
Moon advocates the "sunshine policy" of trying to expand inter-Korean cooperation with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The rapprochement policy was created by late liberal President Kim Dae-jung and championed by Kim's successor Roh Moo-hyun who governed the country for five...
SEOUL, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Moon Jae-in was sworn in as South Korea's new president in the parliament building, hours after winning a landslide victory in the five-way presidential race, TV footage showed Wednesday. KEY WORDS:Moon Jae-in ...