krtoday Welcome to Within The Frame, where we bring you today’s most pressing issues across the globe into focus, I’m Kim Mok-yeon. With the arrival of the new year 2025, many laws and regulations are being updated. Today we will take a closer look at the changes in systems that are closely related to daily life. … Read more
Welcome to Press Perspective for this Friday January 3rd here in Seoul. I’m Min Sunhee. Today we touch upon prospects for the global economy this year as seen by the press and pundits. For this I have Steven Borowiec with Nikkei Asia Steven it’s great to have you on. I also have Professor Oh Joon-seok … Read more
Acting President Choi Sang-mok chaired a macroeconomic meeting on this Friday his first since taking over the presidential duties. At the so-called F4 gathering of top finance officials he underscored the importance of maintaining around-the-clock market monitoring to allow for prompt response measures. Choi also pledged to preside over weekly meetings in line with his … Read more
Now that confrontation between the presidential security personnel and the team assigned with his arrest has been drawing large crowds of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s supporters to the neighborhood denouncing attempts to detain him. Our Lee Eun-hee is on site. Eun-hee what have you been hearing? Yes, Sunny, I’ve been here for a few hours … Read more
Disgraced crypto entrepreneur Kwon Do-hyeong also known as Do Kwon pleaded “not guilty” to charges of fraud in his first court appearance in the U.S. The plea was placed at a Manhattan federal court on Thursday following his extradition from Montenegro on Tuesday. According to authorities investors across the globe were affected by the 40 … Read more
Rival political parties have also voiced their respective thoughts regarding the attempt to arrest the suspended president. The ruling People Power Party condemned the attempt calling it “an abuse of power”. Its Emergency Leadership Committee Chair Kwon Young-se also accused relevant authorities of overstepping their boundaries and vowed to take action should they continue to … Read more
A second pre-trial hearing took place at the Constitutional Court this afternoon. For details I have Oh Soo-young standing by live at the venue. Soo-young I hear today’s session stretched on quite a bit amid some tense words between the two sides? Yes, the hearing was expected to take around 40 minutes like last time, … Read more
Up next we share with you some of the K-pop plans for the music stage this year as well as the K-productions to hit the big and small screens in 2025. Our culture correspondent Song Yoo-jin has more. If you’re curious about some of the K-culture events and content coming up this year, this is … Read more
A tense confrontation took place at President Yoon Suk Yeol’s residential compound earlier today between his security officials and authorities seeking his arrest. Our correspondent Kim Do-yeon reports. The first ever attempt to detain a sitting president was halted after a 5-hour stand-off between investigators and the Presidential Security Service, that included, some physical confrontations. … Read more
Meanwhile on a promising note as we start this new year. Over 2-hundred-42-thousand babies were born last year marking Korea’s first annual increase in nine years. Lee Eun-jin has details. For the first time since 2015, the number of births recorded in South Korea in a year has surpassed the previous year’s figure. In 2023, … Read more
