Kim Keon-hee, President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol’s wife and future first lady, spoke to local media early Thursday morning after Yoon won the 20th presidential election. “I will assist, with my humble capabilities, the president-elect to fulfill the tasks given to him by the people,” said Kim, 49, in an interview with a local media outlet early Thursday morning after Yoon’s win became clear. “I will...

Wednesday’s election came down to the slimmest margin ever seen in South Korean presidential election history, with the conservative opposition’s Yoon Suk-yeol beating his rival from the ruling camp, Lee Jae-myung, by just over 247,000 votes. It was the tightest race ever seen in the country’s 35-year-old democracy. Yoon, who was until March last year the country’s prosecutor general, took 48.56...

South Korea's central bank said Thursday that it cannot rule out the possibility of inflation running high for a longer period due to sky-high energy prices that could further rise amid heightened geopolitical risk from Ukraine. In a report submitted to the National Assembly, the Bank of Korea (BOK) also said that the country's exports growth could slow slightly this year due to continued global...

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol said Thursday he will trust and follow the will of the people as he vowed to close any national divisions. "I will solely trust the people and follow the people's will," Yoon said in his remarks given at the National Assembly Library in western Seoul. "(The election results) constitute a call for reform, and the restoration of justice and common sense as well as th...

As South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol received a congratulatory call from US President Joe Biden hours after his election victory Thursday, drawing keen attention is when they will meet. Observers say they may hold their first summit talks as early as in late May. Biden is reportedly considering a visit to Japan in late May for a Quad summit, which will offer a chance for him to make a s...

President Moon Jae-in on Thursday congratulated President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol on winning the presidential election as they held a telephone conversation, Moon's spokesperson said. Moon told Yoon that they need to hold a meeting to discuss a smooth transition of power and his administration will provide support for the next administration's inauguration, presidential spokesperson Park Kyung-mee t...

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reportedly congratulated South Korea's President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol Thursday on his election win and expressed hope to work together to improve Seoul-Tokyo ties. He was quoted as saying the strained relations between the neighbors need to improve, especially as "healthy" bilateral ties are "indispensable" amid major challenges in the international ...

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol held a phone conversation with US President Joe Biden on Thursday, during which they reaffirmed the strong alliance against North Korea's repeated launches of ballistic missiles, according to officials in Yoon's party. Biden congratulated Yoon on winning the presidential election and invited the conservative president-elect of South Korea to the White House, officia...

Gasoline prices in South Korea rose to the highest level in more than eight years Thursday as the deepening conflict between Russia and Ukraine pushes global oil prices higher amid growing supply concerns. The average retail gas price had reached 1,904.35 won ($1.55) per liter as of 9:10 a.m., up 11.95 won from the previous day, according to Opinet, a crude oil price provider run by the state-ru...

On March 4, 2021, Yoon stepped down, four months before his term was due to end. He said that it was hard to watch common sense and justice collapsing, and that his role in the prosecution was over. President Moon accepted his resignation an hour and 15 minutes after the letter was submitted. New career in politics At 1 p.m. on June 29, 2021, Yoon officially announced his candidacy for the 20th...

South Korea is likely to make a U-turn from its yearslong nuclear phase-out drive as President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has vowed to scrap the policy and make the country a powerhouse in nuclear power generation. President Moon Jae-in has championed breaking away from nuclear energy since his inauguration in 2017 by retiring old plants and refraining from building new ones. But Yoon, as presidential...

Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki on Thursday cited the Ukraine crisis, high inflation and currency volatility as the biggest risks to the South Korean economy, his office said. Hong called for thorough policy efforts to better tackle the economic fallout of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and cope with growing inflationary pressure amid surging energy costs. He also called attention to increased exter...

Even with no light visible at the end of the tunnel that is the COVID-19 pandemic, the South Korean baseball league plans to forge ahead with a full slate of regular season games in 2022. The first step toward that objective will come in the form of a preseason, which starts Saturday for all 10 teams. The Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) has scheduled 16 exhibition games per team through March...

More than 1 in 3 people in South Korea said competence and personality are what they look for in a presidential candidate, according to a survey from local pollster Realmeter, which asked people about the qualities they look for in a presidential candidate. The survey, which was conducted on Friday and Saturday last week, also showed that around 25.1 percent of people vote based on the candida...

2) 파트 5 3문제 1. In the airline industry, a medical check-up is ------- for prospective employees in order to determine their suitability for the job. (A) functional (B) involuntary (C) average (D) mandatory 해석 -- 항공 산업에서는, 해당 업무에 대한 적합성을 알아내기 위해 채용 후보자들에 대한 건강 검진이 의무적이다. 해설 -- 형용사 어휘 문제 ‘채용 후보자들에 대한 건강 검진이 의무적이다’라는 문맥이 되어야 하므로 ‘의무적인’이라는 뜻의 형용사 (D) mandatory가 정답이다. 참고로 (A) functional은 ‘기능...