Seo Ward News Today

Rival parties geared up their campaigns for the April 10 general elections Sunday, with the ruling People Power Party (PPP) calling for support for the current administrations reform agenda and the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) seeking to pass judgment on what it called its incompetence.

The southwestern city of Gwangju suffered a major water outage Sunday due to a valve malfunction at a water purification plant, officials said.