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Litigation adds to South Korean government pressures

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SOUTH KOREA

Meanwhile, President Yoon Suk-yeol’s unpopular lame duck presidency has become more tenuous as prosecutors’ investigations continue into both Yoon and his wife, on one side, and…

Opposition win portends policy gridlock in Seoul

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SOUTH KOREA

The ruling conservative People Power Party (PPP) will take scant consolation from avoiding an opposition supermajority, as it needed a win to take control of the assembly and…

Purges will backfire on South Korea's new president

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SOUTH KOREA

As under his predecessor, these reforms, especially of the police, strike critics as partisan power plays rather than neutral or necessary restructuring. Yoon's approval ratings…