Joyce Lee

1 week ago | kfgo.com | Joyce Lee |Jihoon Lee

By Joyce Lee and Jihoon LeeSEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s parliament approved a supplementary government budget on Thursday of 13.8 trillion won ($9.7 billion) to bolster an economy grappling with weak domestic demand and the potential impact of U.S. tariffs. Leaders of the Democratic Party and the People Power Party had agreed earlier on Thursday to the supplementary budget, which was higher than the government’s proposal of 12.2 trillion won.

1 week ago | money.usnews.com | Joyce Lee |Jihoon Lee

By Joyce Lee and Jihoon LeeSEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's parliament approved a supplementary government budget on Thursday of 13.8 trillion won ($9.7 billion) to bolster an economy grappling with weak domestic demand and the potential impact of U.S. tariffs. Leaders of the Democratic Party and the People Power Party had agreed earlier on Thursday to the supplementary budget, which was higher than the government's proposal of 12.2 trillion won.

1 week ago | newswatchplus.ph | Joyce Lee

(Reuters) - South Korea's Supreme Court will issue a ruling on Thursday in a case involving presidential frontrunner Lee Jae-myung, which could disqualify the former opposition party leader from contesting the country's June 3 election. Lee, the candidate of the liberal Democratic Party which controls parliament, leads opinion polls to win a snap presidential election sparked by former conservative president Yoon Suk Yeol's ouster over his imposition of martial law.

1 week ago | uk.marketscreener.com | Joyce Lee |Ju-min Park

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's Supreme Court threw into doubt frontrunner Lee Jae-myung's eligibility to run for the presidency on Thursday by overturning an earlier ruling that had cleared him of breaking an election law. The Supreme Court said that Lee violated election law by publicly making "false statements" during his 2022 presidential bid and sent the case back to the appeals court.

1 week ago | uk.marketscreener.com | Joyce Lee |Ju-min Park

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's top court cast doubt on Thursday on frontrunner Lee Jae-myung's eligibility to run for the presidency, while the resignations of the prime minister and finance minister shook the interim government in place since December's martial law. Education Minister Lee Ju-ho took over as acting president, the third since the martial law decree, ahead of the June 3 snap election.