Major political parties have reneged on their pledges to enact political reforms and introduce fresh blood into the political arena for the upcoming April 10 general elections, and this failure is glaringly evident in the candidate roster, which shows no significant departures from the composition seen in the previous parliamentary elections.
Cho Soo-jin, a lawyer who was selected as a candidate to run in the April 10 National Assembly elections on the Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) ticket, dropped out of the race on Friday amid allegations that she exacerbated the trauma of a child rape victim.
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The Philippines and the Republic of Korea signed an agreement to boost the Philippines' fishery exports to the East Asian country.
Photo from the Department of Agriculture The South Korean Embassy in the Philippines announced this after the two countries signed a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MR