Lawmakers safely secured extra budgets of 252 billion won ($181 million) over the last four years for their pork-barrel projects in the course of deliberations on next year’s budget.
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s agony deepens as the majority Democratic Party is pushing for its third motion to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the power abuse scandal involving the first lady.
While Lee Jae-myung is elated after the court found him “not guilty” of subornation of perjury, Han Dong-hoon is still stuck in a swamp of criticisms over suspicious online comments against the presidential couple.
While the political future of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung will be determined on Monday by the court, the governing People Power Party’s leader is under fire for comments allegedly posted by his family members to criticize the presidential couple.
It will be better if the president can launch a colossal replacement of his ministers and aids earlier given the tough challenges from the re-election of Donald Trump as U.S. president.
Hong Chul-ho, the president’s senior secretary for political affairs, warned against “asking such rude questions to the president” as it could irk him.
After the court convicted Democratic Party (DP) leader Lee Jae-myung of violating the Election Act , DP Rep. Lee Hae-sik extolled him as “a servant of God” on Facebook.
Since the Seoul Central District Court convicted Democratic Party (DP) leader Lee Jae-myung last week of violating the Election Act, the PPP has turned to attacking the DP for electing a criminal as its leader.
After the court's first ruling, the DP leader awaits rulings on charges of subordination of perjury, remitting $8 million to North Korea and orchestrating an illegal redevelopment when he was Seongnam mayor.
Despite people’s wishes to hear a frank acceptance of the first lady’s abuse of power from President Yook Suk Yeol, many people expressed complaints about the president bent on embracing his wife.
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