South Korean president facing 3 lame duck years?
South Korea’s parliamentary election of April 10, 2024, was widely seen as a referendum on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s first two years in office.
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Yoon’s Korea unification vision: liberation, not engagement
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol offered a dramatically different vision of Korean unification in his Liberation Day speech on August 15, an annual observance in South Korea that marks the end of Japanese colonial rule over the Korean Peninsula.
Breakaway parties roil South Korea’s two-party system
Contemporary South Korean politics has traditionally been dominated by just two main parties – in common with many other countries with strong presidential systems. But that could soon change.
South Korean democracy looks due for reassessment
Now that Seoul has hosted its 3d Summit for Democracy, aimed at opposing the encroachment of undemocratic forces in the region and globally, the South Koreans would do well to look in the mirror and assess their own democratic fundamentals.
What’s wrong with South Korean politics? Rising US-style partisan hatred fuels fears of further violence
The upticks in violence has sparked calls for reform of a political culture that tends to nurture hatred and animosity against rivals.