The investigation into a scandal regarding President Yoon Suk Yeol’s alleged interference in parliamentary candidate nominations will be handed over to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office.
The liberal Democratic Party (DP) submitted a parliamentary impeachment motion against acting President and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo on Thursday after he said he would hold off on appointing nominees for the Constitutional Court.
Acting President Han Duck-soo said Thursday that he will decline to approve candidates nominated to the Constitutional Court by the National Assembly.
All three judges whose nominations for the Constitutional Court are under consideration by the National Assembly have told lawmakers that the court's bench should be filled before it rules on President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment.
President Yoon Suk Yeol named Yoo Sang-im, a materials science professor at Seoul National University, as the new minister of science and ICT on Thursday.
We need a systematic reform to examine candidates thoroughly and transparently from the nomination process.
Can the group now with 12,000 members champion fairness and justice?
The Democratic Party’s (DP’s) nomination for a district in northern Seoul epitomizes political retribution from leader Lee Jae-myung.
A sixth lawmaker who quit the liberal Democratic Party (DP) on Wednesday said the party "is at a high risk" of losing the April 10 general election due to its controversial sidelining of members not aligned with leader Lee Jae-myung.
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