It is unclear exactly how big of a factor Ahn was in Yoon’s campaign, but People Power Party camp officials were optimistic as the nation went to polls, predicting an easy victory with as high a margin as 10 percentage points. Close call The optimistic expectations of Yoon’s camp were shattered when the exit polls jointly conducted by major broadcasting stations KBS, MBC and SBS projected an ex...

Netflix‘s original series “Juvenile Justice” topped the OTT platform’s non-English TV series chart on Thursday. The chart lists non-English TV series in an order of the number of hours that they were watched by the viewers weekly. According to the chart, Netflix subscribers in 190 different territories watched the Korean drama series “Juvenile Justice” for 45.93 million hours during the Feb. 28...

Former chief of the national audit agency Choe Jae-hyeong was among the winners of the March 9 elections, as he garnered over 50 percent of the vote in a legislative by-election held in central Seoul’s Jongno. According to the National Election Commission on Thursday, Choe of the conservative opposition People Power Party had 52.09 percent of the vote and independent candidate Kim Young-jong, a ...

“This is a KIS achievement,” the school’s AP computer science principles teacher Benny Aulton said. “The school has done an amazing job with diversity, equity, inclusivity and justice initiatives.” According to KIS, the open concept of the D&I suite generates student interest and schoolwide collaboration. The learning space is open to all students and faculty, allowing them to walk through the l...

COVID-19 economic rescue At the top of his agenda is compensating those who have sustained economic losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Yoon’s plans, "fair and complete" compensations for losses will be provided, and counseling will be offered to merchants and self-employed people affected by the pandemic. Yoon pledged to establish a presidential committee dedicated to COVID-19 co...

The 2022 presidential election showed that age and regional divides in Korea continue to remain solid. President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol of the main opposition conservative People Power Party beat his liberal rival Lee Jae-myung from the Democratic Party of Korea by 0.73 percentage points, marking the smallest point gap in the presidential election history of Korea. The previous record of the small...

Cable channel JTBC broke ranks by conducting its own exit poll and integrating AI technologies to resurrect deceased former Presidents Park Chung-hee, Kim Young-sam, Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun. However, the effort was not enough to win viewers’ hearts or eyeballs, as the show recorded a viewership rating of 3.02 percent, according to Nielsen Korea. By Lee Si-jin ( sj_lee@heraldcorp.com )

Chaebol reform had been a key agenda in previous presidential campaigns, but it was no longer present in this year’s election. Except for Justice Party candidate Sim Sang-jung, none of the major presidential contenders mentioned chaebol reform in their campaign pledges. With more pressing economic issues such as runaway home prices, small business owners struggling from the pandemic and inflati...

With Yoon Suk-yeol set to be South Korea’s next president, the country’s biopharmaceutical and gaming industries are paying vigilant attention as the president-elect pledged to increase support for the bio and health sectors while vowing to tighten regulations on game makers’ random box items. The pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries on Thursday welcomed Yoon’s campaign promise to set...

Investors are bracing themselves for a bumpy ride ahead and keeping a close watch on how President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s campaign pledges to cut capital gains tax and rein in corporate spinoffs will pan out. The president-elect, representing the conservative bloc, has proposed reversing capital gains taxes that the current liberal-leaning Moon administration has put on investors, saying removing...

South Korea’s President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol held a phone conversation with US President Joe Biden just hours after his win Thursday, during which they reaffirmed the US-South Korea alliance to deal with North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. During the 20-minute phone conversation, Biden congratulated Yoon on winning the presidential election, and invited the president-elect to the White...

Former top prosecutor Yoon Suk-yeol rose to the presidency in less than a year, entering politics with a promise to restore fairness following a regime marred by runaway housing prices and corruption scandals. The political neophyte now needs to prove his presidential capacity by addressing the mounting political and diplomatic challenges the nation faces. Public frustration grew under the admin...

South Korea’s daily COVID-19 cases have surpassed 300,000 for two days straight, government data showed Thursday. According to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency, the country added 327,549 new COVID-19 infections during the 24 hours of Wednesday, slightly down from the previous day. The country’s daily infections first topped the 300,000 mark a day earlier with 342,446 cases, the c...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the country would launch “a large number of reconnaissance satellites” by 2025 to monitor the “hostile” military activities of the US forces and its allies in the region, state media reported Thursday. The North Korean leader laid out the plan in a rare visit to the National Aerospace Development Administration, which came after Pyongyang claimed it conducted...