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In her New Year address and news conference on Wednesday, President Park Geun-hye focused on the “emergency situations” that she said Korea faced on the …

The government has launched a new anticorruption initiative for the public sector. The latest campaign, announced Tuesday by Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, is …

It almost seems like a curse. Last week, North Korea’s fourth, undetected, nuclear test angered the world, particularly South Korea, the U.S., Japan and …

North Korea’s crown prince Kim the Third’s latest nuclear test has the world buzzing. The buzzing mostly deals with whether the bomb was a hydrogen bomb, …

The newly elected coalition that’s now in charge of Venezuela’s congress represents more than 20 parties, but they share three big goals: freeing political …

Korean political parties usually recruit “new faces” ahead of major elections to improve their public image and broaden their support base. This recruiting …

The Federation of Korean Trade Unions’ decision to nullify the grand social compromise reached last September is another reminder of how selfish Korea’s …

It is indeed rare, if not entirely against protocol, for foreign ambassadors to visit the chairman of the judiciary committee of the legislature of a receiving …

Due to the nature of my profession, I often get to meet people from various other countries and hear their impression of Korea. I have noticed they find three …

For more than two years, the Park Geun-hye administration has repeatedly pledged to carry out full-fledged efforts to create as many jobs as possible by 2017 …