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Crushing by-election defeat stymies Moon s reform, peace initiatives
Posted : 2021-04-08 16:40
Updated : 2021-04-08 16:55 President Moon Jae-in speaks during a meeting with his aides and secretaries at Cheong Wa Dae, Monday. Yonhap
By Nam Hyun-woo
With Wednesday s by-elections to pick new mayors for Seoul and Busan ending in a crushing defeat for the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), observers say President Moon Jae-in is now likely to rapidly lose his grip on state affairs.
They said the elections will also affect Moon s peace initiative for the Korean Peninsula, as Pyongyang is anticipated to strengthen its perception of inter-Korean relations as subordinate to those it has with the U.S., especially as the South Korean leader increasingly becomes a lame duck president.
Posted : 2021-02-18 15:47 By Jun Ji-hye
The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) said Thursday that its board of directors named Lee Kwang-hyung, a professor emeritus of the bio and brain engineering department, as the next president of the university.
Lee Kwang-hyung, new president of KAIST / Courtesy of KAISTOnce the nomination is approved by Education Minister Yoo Eun-hae and Science and ICT Minister Choi Ki-young, Lee will be officially appointed as the 17th president of the country s leading science and technology research university, Feb. 23. His term is four years.
Lee earned a bachelor s degree and master s degree in industrial engineering from Seoul National University in 1978 and KAIST in 1980, respectively.