With candidate registration period less than a week away, opposition candidates bring campaign merger talk to surface

Controversy helps widen Yoon Suk-yeol's lead in ongoing race

Presidential candidates vented their rage Tuesday after two South Korean short trackers were disqualified in questionable referee decisions for alleged infractions at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Skaters Hwang Dae-heon and Lee June-seo were both disqualified from the semifinals of the men's 1,000m on Monday after getting called for making an illegal late passing and a lane change that caused con...

The last two years of the pandemic in South Korea have been punctuated by similar, preventable tragedies, and this will stop with Yoon Suk-yeol as president, according to his top COVID-19 adviser. Dr. Jung Ki-suck, who served as the director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2016-17 in the immediate aftermath of the Middle East respiratory syndrome outbreak, joined the...

The presidential campaign for Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea is embroiled in fresh controversy, this time over accusations of posthumous defamation of two iconic progressive presidents. The Democratic Party on Saturday uploaded two videos on its official YouTube channel featuring former presidents Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Dae-jung. The videos portrayed the two presidents backi...

Poll partly reflects first official television debate among top candidates

Absentee ballot registration only available from Feb. 9 to 13 as it stands now

Sim: "A person owning a single home with the market price of 2.5 billion won would (have to pay) 500,000 won a year. I am ashamed to see that you would label the 500,000-won payment from a person living in a 2.5 billion won-worth home as a bomb." The Justice Party candidate claimed that Yoon is wrong in claiming that the amount of comprehensive real estate tax levied on homeowners is a "bomb," a...

Main opposition presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol is leading his ruling party rival Lee Jae-myung with 46 percent public support against Lee's 38 percent, a survey showed Friday. Yoon of the People Power Party (PPP) gained 1 percentage point from a week ago, while Lee of the Democratic Party lost 1 point, according to the Research View survey conducted on 1,000 adults from Tuesday to Thursday...

People Power Party presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol on Thursday defended his position on "preemptive strike" against North Korea, saying that such a plan would curb war and protect peace in a live broadcast TV debate on Thursday. "The president should exercise leadership to prevent the war itself from happening. I think it’s a rash remark," Sim Sang-jeung of the Justice Party told Yoon in th...

Presidential nominee Yoon Suk-yeol of the main opposition People Power Party claimed Thursday that it was impossible to transition to 100 percent renewable energy sources, adding that traditional sources of energy must be maintained as well in working toward sustainable growth. During a TV debate held among four major presidential candidates, Yoon said the initiative of RE100, which entails comm...

Lee Jae-myung, the presidential nominee of the ruling Democratic Party, spent most the seven-minute open topic segment given to him attacking and questioning his key rival Yoon Suk-yeol at the first live broadcast debate for key presidential candidates on Thursday. Regarding pandemic-related supplementary budget to help damaged small business owners, Lee denounced Yoon, saying that he suggested ...

Presidential nominee Lee Jae-myung of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea firmly distanced himself from the Moon Jae-in administration, accusing it of being reckless and failing to address the difficulties of Koreans during the pandemic. During a TV debate held Thursday among four major presidential candidates, Lee said the Moon administration had made small business owners shoulder the burden ...

Civil servant allegedly ordered to fetch groceries and pills for Lee’s wife

Ruling party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung is running neck and neck with his main opposition rival, Yoon Suk-yeol, at 40.4 percent support against Yoon's 38.5 percent, a poll showed Thursday. Lee of the liberal Democratic Party gained 5.1 percentage points from the pollster's previous survey on Jan. 8-10, and Yoon of the conservative People Power Party edged up 0.5 point, according to the...