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Mayor Oh stands by his campaign pledges, a month later

In a meeting with the press to review his first month in office, Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon reiterated some of his election pledges, including plans to provide some 240,000 new housing units in the city to stabilize the real estate market. “I stand...

2021-05-17

Mayor Oh sticks with Gwanghwamun redevelopment plan

The overhaul of Gwanghwamun Square will continue — not because it’s a great plan but because so much taxpayer money has already been spent on it, said Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon Tuesday. “I didn’t agree with the plan to redesign the square […] but I...

2021-04-27

Haste makes waste

Gregory Henderson (1922-1988), who worked at the U.S. Embassy in Korea twice during the Syngman Rhee and Park Chung Hee administrations, said, “Seoul is Korea.” In his 1968 book “The Politics of the Vortex,” the diplomat and...

2021-04-15

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