Former diplomats and foreign policy experts with experience in the foreign, unification and defense ministries have secured seats at the National Assembly in the general elections..
Former corporate executives who ran for a seat at the National Assembly received mixed results as the votes from the general election were announced Thursday. The two headliners Koh Dong-jin, former president of Samsung Electronics, and Kong Young-woon, former president of Hyundai Motor found each other on opposite ends of the spectrum as the former won while the latter suffered a loss. Koh, who joined the ruli.
Lee Nak-yon, a veteran politician and a former prime minister, suffered a crushing defeat in Wednesday s parliamentary elections held after he quit the main opposition Democratic P.
The main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is leading in six closely contested constituencies, with less than two weeks to go before the April 10 general elections, according to a recent poll.