Experts criticize Park, Moon for their vague policies on household debt, chaebol reform

Over 70 percent of South Korean voters living overseas have cast ballots in the presidential election during a weeklong voting period, the National Election Commission said Tuesday. Of a total of 222,389 registered voters overseas, 158,235 or 71.2 percent have voted at polling stations set up at South Korean diplomatic missions Tuesday. The overseas voting began Wednesday last week and the final...

Nearly 80 percent of all voters in the country said they will vote in this year's presidential race, a poll conducted by the state election watchdog said Tuesday. The survey carried out by Korea Research Center on behalf of the National Election Commission on 1,500 people nationwide late last week showed 79.9 percent of all respondents saying they will definitely vote on Dec. 19. By age group, ...

North Korea’s impending long-range missile test will have a limited impact on South Korea’s presidential election with its degree largely depending on the success or failure of the launch, experts here said Tuesday. North Korea installed the first stage of its three-stage rocket on its launch pad Monday, going ahead with its deadline set for between Dec. 10 and 22, despite vehement international...

Former independent presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo on Monday called for support for Democratic United Party’s Moon Jae-in as the single progressive candidate. The development was welcomed by the DUP. “The public will not forget Ahn Cheol-soo, and the moving journey undertaken by all those concerned. In particular, (I) thank Ahn for the comment ‘support Moon for new politics and administrat...

Presidential candidate Moon Jae-in has come under fire from the ruling party over an expensive chair featured in a recent campaign commercial and an underpriced real estate tax report that threatens to undercut his folksy image. The ruling conservative Saenuri Party pounced on the main opposition Democratic United Party’s candidate not only for scenes from the commercial but also for his involve...