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Hard-liners’ counterattack (KOR)

On Friday, two days after the ruling Democratic Party (DP)’s crushing defeat in the April 7 mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan, a group of its first-term lawmakers issued a statement repenting the way...

2021-04-11

Hard-liners’ counterattack

On Friday, two days after the ruling Democratic Party (DP)’s crushing defeat in the April 7 mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan, a group of its first-term lawmakers issued a statement repenting the way they have acted since...

2021-04-11

It’s not your ‘victory’

As he stepped down as the interim head of the opposition People Power Party (PPP), Kim Chong-in warned the PPP not to regard its victory in the mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan as its own doing. “You must do utmost to...

2021-04-11

Watch your mouth

Badmouthing from campaigners has gotten out of control as the April 7 mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan near. Rivalling candidates resort to mudslinging and bad language to denigrate and humiliate the opponents, fanning...

2021-03-29

Not terribly contrite (KOR)

The April 7 mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan are being held because of sexual misconduct by the late Seoul mayor Park Won-soon and former Busan mayor Oh Geo-don, both members of the ruling Democratic Party (DP). But the DP...

2021-03-25

Not terribly contrite

The April 7 mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan are being held because of sexual misconduct by the late Seoul mayor Park Won-soon and former Busan mayor Oh Geo-don, both members of the ruling Democratic Party (DP). But the DP...

2021-03-25

A race of mud-slinging (KOR)

With two weeks left before the April 7 mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan, each party’s candidates have been determined. Oh Se-hoon of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) on Tuesday defeated Ahn Cheol-soo of the...

2021-03-23

A race of mud-slinging

With two weeks left before the April 7 mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan, each party’s candidates have been determined. Oh Se-hoon of the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) on Tuesday defeated Ahn Cheol-soo of the...

2021-03-23

DP considers scrapping own rules to field mayoral candidates

A four-term lawmaker of the ruling party on Friday said he wants to run in next year’s Seoul mayoral by-election, if the party decides to field a candidate.

2020-10-30