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4 days ago · The incident has delivered a major blow to former President Moon Jae In’s public image, given that he was already under investigation by prosecutors for potential involvement in a bribery case. He is accused of being involved in his former son-in-law’s alleged preferential hiring at T’way Air. On August 30, Moon Da Hye’s house was searched by the authorities regarding complaints filed four years ago. However, Moon and her husband have since been divorced.
Apr 22, 2022 · President Moon Jae-in, who is barred from seeking re-election after his five-year term, and the North’s leader had warm parting words amid a diplomatic stalemate.
May 10, 2017 · Moon Jae-in, a former refugee, special forces soldier and human rights lawyer, has been sworn in as president of South Korea. “I will become the president who makes a country that people can be...
In the run-up to the May 2017 general election, Moon Jae-in vowed that if elected he would put an end to the corruption that was tarnishing South Korean politics, and which had brought a premature ...
2 days ago · Moon Da-hye, daughter of former South Korean president Moon Jae-in, was arrested for driving under the influence (DUI) and causing a traffic accident in Seoul that injured a taxi driver. Seoul's Yongsan Police Station, under the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, reported that 40-year-old Moon Da-hye crashed into a taxi around 2:50 a.m. last Saturday in Itaewon-dong, Seoul, while intoxicated. Her blood alcohol content was measured at 0.14%, far exceeding the 0.08% threshold for license ...
May 9, 2022 · When South Korean President Moon Jae-In took office in May 2017, the Asian edition of TIME magazine hailed him as “the negotiator.” Moon’s five-year tenure did hold true to this name in a way,...
Following his inauguration in May 2017, President Moon Jae-in embarked on his ambitious Korea Peace Initiative (KPI), which aims to achieve a nuclear weapons-free, peaceful, and prosperous Korean ...
Moon Jae-in, who governed South Korea from 2017-2022, was a champion of inter-Korean rapprochement. He met Kim Jong Un three times in 2018, touching off a flurry of short-lived exchange programs between the rivals and helping arrange the first North Korea-U.S. summit held between Kim and then-U.S. President Donald Trump. But North Korea turned a cold shoulder on Moon and cut off ties after its diplomacy with the United States fell apart in 2019.
Oct 25, 2021 · In his final policy speech at parliament, President Moon Jae-in said he’ll “make efforts to the end to help a new order for peace and prosperity on the Korean Peninsula be established through dialogue and diplomacy.”
S. Korea may scrap buffer zone pact after North's drone incursion North Korea fired artillery shots into the agreement's designated maritime buffer zones multiple times in 2022, and last week sent five drones across the border into South Korean airspace. The violations have prompted growing calls from ruling-party parliamentarians for the hawkish Yoon administration to scrap the four-year-old deal, inked under then-president Moon Jae-in.
