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Jul 29, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Jinwan Park
Following the success in the April legislative election, the Rebuilding Korea Party, currently the third-largest political entity in South Korea, suggested a comprehensive package of seven constitutional amendments. Among the proposals was a provision to allow presidents to serve a maximum of two four-year terms, a departure from the longstanding single-term system adopted in 1987 as a safeguard against dictatorship.
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May 30, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Jinwan Park
After a four-year hiatus, leaders from China, South Korea and Japan reconvened in Seoul this week for their ninth trilateral summit. The meeting occurred against a backdrop of high geopolitical tensions and regional security threats, punctuated by North Korea’s failed reconnaissance satellite launch hours after the gathering.
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May 6, 2024 | 
thediplomat.com | Jinwan Park |SeungHwan (Shane) Kim
Does the country’s new crop of minor parties represent a lasting realignment, or a temporary blip? By Jinwan Park and SeungHwan Kim South Korea’s 22nd National Assembly election ushered in a shift in the nation’s political landscape. The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) solidified its position as the dominant force, capturing 175 seats including 161 district mandates.
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May 6, 2024 | 
tribunecontentagency.com | Jinwan Park |SeungHwan (Shane) Kim
South Korea’s 22nd National Assembly election ushered in a shift in the nation’s political landscape. The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) solidified its position as the dominant force, capturing 175 seats including 161 district mandates. The ruling People Power Party (PPP), by contrast, suffered a stinging rebuke, winning just 108 seats.
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Apr 14, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Jinwan Park
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Apr 13, 2024 | 
asia.nikkei.com | Jinwan Park
Jinwan Park will represent South Korea at the inaugural U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Global Leadership Youth Summit in July and is an incoming Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The pathbreaking baseball games played last month in Seoul between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres provided a tantalizing glimpse into the potential for deeper trilateral cooperation among the U.S., South Korea and Japan.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
csis.org | Victor Cha |Jinwan Park |Andy Lim |Korea Chair
On April 10, South Korea held its 22nd general election. The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) emerged victorious, winning a majority of the 300 seats in the National Assembly, with 174 of seats to the ruling People Power Party’s (PPP) 109 seats. The overall voter turnout was 67 percent, which was the highest record in 32 years.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
channelnewsasia.com | Jinwan Park
WASHINGTON: All eyes are on South Korean voters as they head to the polls for pivotal parliamentary elections that could upend President Yoon Suk-yeol’s domestic and foreign policy agendas just two years into his term. The Apr 10 (Wednesday) vote for all 300 seats in the National Assembly - South Korea’s unicameral legislature - has taken on outsized significance as a referendum on Yoon and his conservative administration.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
eastasiaforum.org | Jinwan Park |Tae Yeon Eom |Martin Weiser |Vithoureakborndidh Chou
All eyes are on South Korean voters as they head to the polls for pivotal parliamentary elections that could upend President Yoon Suk-yeol’s domestic and foreign policy agendas just two years into his term. The 10 April 2024 vote for all 300 seats in the National Assembly — South Korea’s unicameral legislature — has taken on outsized significance as a referendum on Yoon and his conservative administration.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
scmp.com | Jinwan Park |Zhuowen Li
On March 18, China condemned South Korea for inviting Taiwan to the third Summit for Democracy, an annual event spearheaded by the United States and its democratic partners. This took place only days after Beijing’s earlier warning to Seoul over its comments regarding maritime tensions in the South China Sea, laying bare the growing strains in China-South Korea relations.
