The annexation of Gimpo was proposed by the People Power Party (PPP), to which both the Incheon and Seoul mayors are members, while the Gyeonggi governor is a member of the Democratic Party.
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...
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...
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