JoongAng Daily, April 8, 2008 With the National Assembly elections tomorrow, candidates and their supporters were making frantic efforts to win voters yesterday. For one candidate’s wife, that meant singing to a group of drunken men hooting at her at a pub. Although the outlook for the Grand Natio...

JoongAng Daily, April 4, 2008 Five days before the National Assembly elections, the race is on to capture undecided voters. Experts say their numbers are higher than usual this year. “Although it is hard to calculate, we feel that the number of undecided voters has increased since the last electio...

Donga Iblo, April 1, 2008 With only nine days until the 18th general elections, recent polls showed that the Grand National Party is leading in 110 electoral districts out of 245 as of March 31. The United Democratic Party is leading in around 50 precincts, the Liberty Forward Party in 10, the Pro-P...

JoongAng Daily, March 28, 2008 When Kang Dong-hun, an independent making his first run for the National Assembly this year, introduces himself, the first thing he tells people is not his name, but that he is a “Pro-Park independent.� “I am not well-known to voters yet,� Kang explained. Being...

Korea Times, November 8, 2007 By Yoon Won-supStaff Reporter North Korea's state-run newspaper criticized Thursday the run for the presidency by Lee Hoi-chang, former chairman of the Grand National Party (GNP), who maintains a hard-line policy toward North Korea. The Pyongyang Shinmun's criticism was...

When I was a teenager, every year I yearned for Valentine’s Day as much as I dreaded it. I desperately wanted one of those huge Hershey’s Kisses, or flowers, or *gasp*, a card in which some boy would have written some clumsy sentiment about how pretty I was, or how much he liked me, or even...

Seems everyone is riveted to news reports about the presidential campaign here. Everyone, that is, except some folks at the United Nations, where persistent chatter has it that Zalmay Khalilzad, our ambassador to the U.N., is also thinking of running for president . . . of Afghanistan....

Korea Times, January 1, 2008 By Kim Sue-young Staff Reporter The upcoming general elections will likely be crowded with aspirants seeking office as legislators, with about 1,900 people nationwide hinting they would make a bid, according to reports Tuesday. Additionally, the April 9 elections to pick...