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All posts tagged "Park Geun-hye"

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  Park’s chief of staff files libel suit against reporter

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye’s chief of staff filed a libel suit against a reporter of one of South Korea’s major newspapers, an official said Monday, the latest in a series of legal actions over a...

  • Posted December 8, 2014
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  Freedom (?) of Press in Korea and Japan

  Korea sits in 57th, Japan in 59th place in the 2014 World Free Press Index -  lower than El Salvador, Haiti  This week’s news cycle has been dominated by one issue in South Korea . The scandal surrounding the...

  • Posted December 5, 2014
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  ‘Memogate’ costs President credibility

  By Kang Seung-woo South Korean President Park Geun-hye is facing yet another challenge that may adversely affect, if not consume, her remaining three years in office. In the unfolding “memogate” scandal, her aides, former and incumbent, are...

  • Posted December 3, 2014
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  President Park orders full investigation on leaked memo

  By Yi Whan-woo President Park Geun-hye called Monday for a thorough investigation into the alleged leak of internal memoranda about her former aide Jeong Yun-hoe. “The leaking of such confidential information is an unimaginable breach of national...

  • Posted December 2, 2014
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  Nearly 9 of 10 S. Koreans have negative view of government

  SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Yonhap) — Nearly nine out of 10 South Koreans disapprove of the National Assembly’s job performance due mainly to perennial political wrangling, a poll showed Friday. According to the survey on 1,011 adults taken...

  • Posted November 9, 2014
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  President Park vows to implement ‘creative education’

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye vowed Tuesday to restructure the South Korean education system to stress creativity by going beyond traditional paradigms, a view in line with her “creative economy” vision. “Our education should be the...

  • Posted November 4, 2014
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  South Korea indicts Japanese journalist for defaming President

  SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s prosecutors indicted a Japanese reporter from a conservative Tokyo newspaper without detention Wednesday on charges of damaging President Park Geun-hye’s reputation. Tatsuya Kato, head of the Seoul bureau of Japan’s Sankei Shimbun...

  • Posted October 8, 2014
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