SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in marked the anniversary of Korea’s independence from Japanese colonialism with a robust call for the economic integration of North and South Korea as a means to achieve “survival and development” as well as “true liberation” for the long-divided nation.
We continue to follow the events that can potentially transform into the latest political crisis in South Korea. Even at this stage, the online comment-rigging scandal buried Moon Jae-in’s plans of ensuring the constitutional amendment referendum coincided with the 13 June local elections, almost sabotaged work on an extra-budgetary project and, in the end, led to the appointment of a special prosecutor to spearhead this case.
On 7 July 2018, a 700-strong protest took place in front of the office of Seoul’s mayor. People came out into the streets carrying signs, such as “Put Koreans before refugees”, and protesting against the policies of the provincial administration of the Jeju island, which, in their opinion, is responsible for flooding Korea with “fake refugees”. Other slogans bore messages as “Koreans first”, “We want security” and “Who is this country for?”.
Unsafe treatments, cat poop parasites and stealing sharks + this day in history w/the Texas Tower shooting and our song of the day by the Dirty River Boys on your Morning Monarchy for August 1, 2018.
Unsafe treatments, cat poop parasites and stealing sharks + this day in history w/the Texas Tower shooting and our song of the day by the Dirty River Boys on your Morning Monarchy for August 1, 2018.
(ANTIWAR.COM) — South Korea surprised the world on Wednesday, when a 2-0 victory over Germany in the World Cup eliminated the German national team, who had won the previous event. Unfortunately for the South Koreans, this was still not enough to get them into the knockout round. That’s bad news for South Korea’s national team, and worst […]
The South Korean President Moon Jae-in made an official State Visit to Russia from 21 to 23 June.
This was the third summit (after their meetings during the G20 summit in July and the Eastern Economic Forum in September 2017) and the first State Visit to Russia in 19 years (South Korean leaders’ visits at other times did not have such a high status).
(ANTIWAR.COM) — The US military has formally ended a 70-year presence in the South Korean capital of Seoul on Friday, with the opening of a new military headquarters further south in the city of Pyeongtaek. The US has had forces in Seoul since shortly after World War 2. The new base is further south, and therefore out of […]
