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3 days ago | 
koreaherald.com | Lee Yoon-seo
“Squid Game” wraps up with the release of its final season this Friday, closing out a franchise that redefined global streaming hits when it debuted in 2021. Se
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3 days ago | 
koreaherald.com | Jihyoung Son
Liberal president visits Gwangju to seek reconciliation over thorny issuesPresident Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday that military tensions between the two Koreas should give way to peace on the Korean Peninsula without a fight, adding that bygone are the days when South Korea relied on military strength for peace.
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5 days ago | 
koreaherald.com | Jihyoung Son
President Lee Jae Myung said Tuesday, the day before the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, that national security could only be guaranteed when South Korea achieves peace on the peninsula. "When we think about the concept of national security, people tend to think that achieving it through a victory in a battle is important. But what's more important is that we win without a fight," Lee said at a Cabinet meeting he presided over at his office Tuesday.
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5 days ago | 
koreaherald.com | Jihyoung Son
President brings back ex-Unification Minister Chung, names Ahn Gyu-back as first civilian to head Defense MinistryPresident Lee Jae Myung on Monday nominated 11 ministers for Cabinet posts, including South Korea's first civilian chief of the Ministry of National Defense in more than six decades, while the incumbent Agriculture Minister from the previous Yoon Suk Yeol administration will remain in her post.
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5 days ago | 
koreaherald.com | Jihyoung Son
Conservatives accuse Lee of neglecting national interests, while experts note possible consideration of China ties and missed arms export opportunitiesPresident Lee Jae Myung's decision not to attend the NATO summit in the Netherlands has brought his “pragmatic” foreign policy approach into renewed focus, while triggering attacks from conservatives.
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6 days ago | 
koreaherald.com | Jihyoung Son
President Lee Jae Myung will skip his meeting with leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization later this week in The Hague, Netherlands, said Wi Sung-lac, director of national security at the presidential office, in a note to reporters on Sunday. The upcoming summit, scheduled to be held Tuesday and Wednesday, would have been the fourth consecutive NATO event at which a South Korean leader has appeared.
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6 days ago | 
koreaherald.com | Jihyoung Son
Lee hosts ruling and opposition party leadership for lunch, just 18 days into presidencyPresident Lee Jae Myung held a lunch meeting with bipartisan delegations Sunday at his official residence in Hannam-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, to discuss the government's recent stimulus proposal and his recent visit to Canada to attend the Group of Seven summit. There, Lee stressed a need to narrow down differences between rival parties.
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1 week ago | 
koreaherald.com | Jihyoung Son
President Lee Jae Myung convened a Cabinet meeting on Thursday and approved a 30.5 trillion won ($22.1 billion) supplementary budget, part of which will fund a universal handout of cash-equivalent vouchers to all South Koreans in a bid to boost domestic consumption amid growing recession fears. The move came just hours after Lee returned from a three-day trip to Canada.
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1 week ago | 
koreaherald.com | Jihyoung Son
Park Sang-min, professor of family medicine at Seoul National University Hospital, has been named the official physician to President Lee Jae-myung, Lee's spokesperson Kang Yu-jung said Thursday. Kang said Park will practice Western medicine as Lee's physician. The presidential office has not unveiled the nomination of a personal doctor dedicated to Korean traditional medicine.
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1 week ago | 
koreaherald.com | Jihyoung Son
President Lee Jae Myung and his wife Kim Hea Kyung returned to South Korea Thursday morning, ending their brief visit to Canada to attend the Group of Seven summit in Kananaskis village of Canada's Alberta province. Upon Lee's arrival at Seoul Air Base in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Lee was greeted by Ko Ki-dong, vice minister of the Ministry of Interior and Safety and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea's floor leader Rep. Kim Byung-kee.