Regardless of which candidate wins the election in June, he will be tasked with suppressing growing working-class opposition ...

The ruling Saenuri Party won a surprise majority in South ... 2011 by-election for the mayor of Seoul. Election day exit polls had forecast conservatives would win no more than 120 seats.

On April 9, Lee Jae-myung stepped down from his role as the chief of the opposition Democratic Party (DP) to run for ...

Lee Jae-myung, widely seen as the frontrunner for South Korea's upcoming presidential election, has vowed to ... than global peers. This is a result of corporate governance issues, dominance ...

Who's voting, what issues are driving voters on the ground—and how each country is handling a more protectionist, more ...

Quoted from Al Jazeera, Han Duck-soo stated on Tuesday, April 8 that the government chose the election date to ensure a smooth electoral process and to give political parties adequate time to make ...

South Korea’s main conservative party has nominated former Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo as its presidential candidate.

South Korea’s former Acting President Han Duck-soo has entered the fray for the country’s top office, amid a flurry of ...

Han Duck-soo, 75, is a career bureaucrat with about 40 years of public service and a Harvard doctorate in economics. He was ...