The 4th Local Elections were held in South Korea on 31 May 2006. It was the first local elections in South Korea to have political parties nominating candidates...

The 5th local elections were held in South Korea on 2 June 2010. The voter turnout reached 54.4%, the highest in 15 years. The ruling GNP was able to win...

minister of South Korea, replacing Lee Hae-chan May 12: The Korean Paralympic Committee is founded. May 31: 2006 South Korean local elections July 10: The...

The 3rd Local Elections were held in South Korea on 13 June 2002. The ruling Millennium Democratic Party was defeated by the opposition Grand National...

Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 9 March 2022. Under the South Korean constitution, presidents are restricted to a single five-year term...

the Korean War broke out. North Korea overran South Korea until US-led UN forces intervened. At the end of the war in 1953, the border between South and...

of the Republic of Korea, often shortened to the National Assembly, is the unicameral national legislature of South Korea. Elections to the National Assembly...

South Korea Early presidential elections were held in South Korea on 9 May 2017 following the impeachment and removal of Park Geun-hye. The elections...

Public holidays in South Korea each belong to one or more of three categories: National day (Korean: 국경일; Hanja: 國慶日) National flag raising day (국기게양일;...

New Korea Party (1990–1997) Hannara Party → Saenuri Party → Liberty Korea Party (1997–2020) Korean Resistance Party (1945–1950) Federation Korean National...

and South Korea Korean conflict Korean reunification North Korea–South Korea relations History of North Korea History of South Korea Partition of Vietnam...

ideological divide has been more deeply entrenched into South Korean political society.However, South Korea is considered to have a strong civil society or simin...

The Constitution of the Republic of Korea (Korean: 대한민국 헌법; Hanja: 大韓民國憲法) is the supreme law of South Korea. It was promulgated on July 17, 1948, and...

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and borders North...

came in second place and lost the election. He ran in the 2006 South Korean local elections and was elected a member to the North Jeolla Provincial Assembly...

The Korean National Police Agency (KNPA), also known as the Korean National Police (KNP), is one of the national police organizations in South Korea. It...

South Korean nationality law (Korean: 국적법) details the conditions in which an individual is a national of the Republic of Korea (ROK), commonly known...

nation that was annexed by Japan in 1910, the Korean Peninsula has been divided into North Korea and South Korea since the end of World War II on 2 September...

curricula, and gender identity discrimination" in South Korean schools. On LGBT rights, South Korea is an outlier among other developed democracies, according...

Conservatism (Korean: 보수주의; Hanja: 保守主義; RR: bosujuui) in South Korea is a political and social philosophy characterized by Korean culture and from Confucianism...

21 (Korean: 국민승리21) party (the later DLP) was formed in preparation for the presidential election of 1997. This was an attempt to unite South Korean progressives...

the Republic of Korea, and fought on its UN-sponsored side in the Korean War (1950–1953). During the subsequent decades, South Korea experienced tremendous...

South Korean by-elections were held in South Korea on 7 April 2021. The National Election Commission announced on 2 March 2021, that the by-elections...

South Korean legislative election 2017 South Korean presidential election 2018 South Korean local elections 2019 South Korean Capitol attack as Grand National...

communism of North Korea. Prior to the Korean War (1950–1953), two-thirds of Korean Christians lived in the North, but most later fled to the South.[citation needed]...

"Ribeoreol" (Korean: 리버럴, the Korean pronunciation of the English "liberal") or "Democratic Camps" (Korean: 민주진영). In South Korea, "liberal" (Korean: 리버럴 or...

constitutional democracy with free and fair elections for the presidency and the members of the National Assembly. South Korean democracy has legally protected rights...

countries are required to have a visa from one of the South Korean diplomatic missions. The Korea Electronic Travel Authorization (K-ETA) became mandatory...

The Jeju uprising, known in South Korea as the Jeju April 3 incident (Korean: 제주 4·3 사건), was an uprising on Jeju Island from April 1948 to May 1949. A...

ˈdʒɛbəl/ CHAY-bohl, JEB-əl; Korean: 재벌 [tɕɛbʌɭ] , lit. 'rich family' or 'financial clique') is a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled...