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President Yoon Suk Yeol's office rejected Democratic Party of Korea Chair Rep. Lee Jae-myung's proposal to hold formal talks with Yoon to narrow differences on a pension reform bill that would require people contribute more while employed and benefit them more after retirement, Lee's aide told reporters Friday. Yoon's aide on political affairs Hong Chul-ho turned down Lee's proposal for eithe...

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Eager to appear communicative amid plunging approval, Yoon’s request for a meeting with opposition leader Lee Jae-myung with no agenda contrasts a history of Korean presidents finding an exit ramp from crises by working with their political opponents

President Yoon Suk Yeol and Rep. Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, have finally decided on a date for their first-ever meeting, after days of back and forth since the National Assembly election on April 10. The Democratic Party said Friday Lee is set to speak with the president over tea at 2 p.m. on April 29, in what will be the first meeting between the two rivals since the ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol and Rep. Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), will have their first official meeting on Monday, as the two sides agreed that a prompt face-to-face discussion was necessary to address pending state affairs.

AsiaToday reporter Hong Sun-miThe presidential office and the main opposition Democratic Party have apparently locked horns over setting the agenda fo..

The presidential office and the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) blamed each other, Thursday, following failed working-level talks aimed at arranging an official meeting between President Yoon Suk Yeol and DPK Chairman Lee Jae-myung.

Aides to President Yoon Suk Yeol and opposition leader Lee Jae-myung held their second meeting Thursday to coordinate the agenda for what would be the first-ever meeting between Yoon and Lee, but failed to reach an agreement, both sides said. Yoon proposed the meeting in a phone call with Lee last Friday, after the ruling People Power Party was routed in the April 10 parliamentary elections, leaving the National Asse...

Party officials said Lee was showing signs of delirium and dehydration

“We still have names to remember,” reads a memorial plaque written in Korean and engraved on the ground of a narrow alley a few meters away from the exit of Itaewon Station....