Former Interior and Safety Minister Lee Sang-min returned home Saturday after an overnight police interrogation over his alleged involvement in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's brief imposition of martial law late last year.
Police on Friday questioned former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min over his alleged involvement in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's brief imposition of martial law late last year.
Police on Tuesday raided the home and offices of former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min over his alleged role in President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived imposition of martial law.
National Security Adviser Shin Won-sik testified that he told President Yoon Suk Yeol not to declare martial law at the seventh hearing of Yoon’s impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court on Tuesday.
Cabinet members and military officials denied association with President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived emergency martial law declaration Tuesday as they were grilled by the parliament Thursday on their roles and knowledge of the situation.
The government plans to invest 3.3 trillion won ($2.5 billion) annually into improving the treatment of critically ill patients at tertiary hospitals over the next five years.
The travel ban announcement came just before thousands rallied in Yeouido, western Seoul, to protest the government’s plan to increase the medical school admissions quota by 2,000 spots next year.
People Power Party interim leader Han Dong-hoon, left, greets former Democratic Party lawmaker Lee Sang-min on Monday. Lee, a five-time lawmaker, had been with the Democratic Party (DP) for 20 years.
After the PPP’s innovation committee chair Ihn Yo-han points to a DP lawmaker jumping ship from the majority party citing the tyranny of Lee Jae-myung, Lee Nak-yon points to the DP lawmaker leaving the party led by Lee Jae-myung.
A five-term lawmaker quit the liberal Democratic Party (DP) on Sunday, claiming the DP has become a personal party of leader Lee Jae-myung with pro-Lee extremist members exercising too much influence.
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