The history of South Korea formally begins with the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945. Noting that,South Korea and North Korea are entirely different countries,despite still being the same people and on the same peninsula.
The National Intelligence Service is the chief intelligence agency of South Korea. The agency was officially established in 1961 as the Korean Central Intelligence Agency,during the rule of President Park Chung-hee's military Supreme Council for National Reconstruction,which displaced the Second Republic of Korea. The original duties of the KCIA were to supervise and coordinate both international and domestic intelligence activities and criminal investigations by all government intelligence agencies,including that of the military. The agency's broad powers allowed it to actively intervene in politics. Agents undergo years of training and checks before they are officially inducted and receive their first assignments.
Park Geun-hye is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 to 2017,when she was impeached and convicted on related corruption charges.
Lee Myung-bak often referred to by his initials MB,is a South Korean businessman and former politician who served as the 10th president of South Korea from 2008 to 2013. Before his presidency,he was the CEO of Hyundai Engineering and Construction,and the mayor of Seoul from 2002 to 2006.
Mian Muhammad Hamza Shahbaz is a Pakistani politician,who was the Leader of the Opposition in the Provincial Assembly of Punjab,in office since 20 October 2022. He also served in this position from September 2018 to April 2022. He was also the Chief Minister of Punjab from 30 April 2022 to 02 May 2022. He had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab from August 2018 till January 2023. Previously,he was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2008 to May 2018. He is the eldest son of current Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 19 December 2012. They were the sixth presidential elections since democratization and the establishment of the Sixth Republic,and were held under a first-past-the-post system,in which there was a single round of voting and the candidate receiving the highest number of votes was elected. Under the South Korean constitution,a president is restricted to a single five-year term in office. The term of the then incumbent president Lee Myung-bak ended on 24 February 2013. According to the Korea Times,30.7 million people voted with turnout at 75.8%. Park Geun-hye of the Saenuri party was elected the first female South Korean president with 51.6% of the vote opposed to 48.0% for her opponent Moon Jae-in. Park's share of the vote was the highest won by any candidate since the beginning of free and fair direct elections in 1987 and the first such election in which any candidate won a majority. Moreover,as of the 2022 election,this is the latest South Korean presidential election in which the winning candidate won an absolute majority of the vote.
The 2012 NIS public opinion manipulation scandal saw members of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) of South Korea accused of interfering in the South Korean presidential election,2012. First,an agent of the National Intelligence Service (NIS) was alleged to have manipulated public opinion to help Park Geun-hye's presidential election under the command of the NIS. Second,the director of the agency commanded an NIS agent to manipulate public opinion. Suspicions were raised before the election,but were not verified until afterwards.
Lin Hsi-shan is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Secretary-General of Legislative Yuan from 1 March 1999 until 31 January 2016.
Lee Jae-yong,known professionally in the West as Jay Y. Lee,is a South Korean business magnate who has been serving as the executive chairman of Samsung Electronics since October 2022. He is the only son of Lee Kun-hee and Hong Ra-hee. As of September 2021,Lee has an estimated net worth of US$11 billion,making him the fourth-wealthiest person in South Korea. In January 2021,Lee was sidelined from taking part in major Samsung business dealings after he resumed serving a prison sentence for his bribery and embezzlement convictions. He was pardoned in August 2022,before reinstating his position at Samsung.
Lee Wan-koo was a South Korean politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 2015.
Hwang Kyo-ahn is a South Korean politician and prosecutor who served as acting president of South Korea from 9 December 2016 to 10 May 2017 and the 40th prime minister of South Korea from 18 June 2015 to 11 May 2017.
The People Party was a centrist political party in South Korea established on 2 February 2016 by Ahn Cheol-soo. The party had a strong support base in the Honam region. The party dissolved on 13 February 2018. A later party of the same name was also founded by Ahn and was active from 2020 to 2022.
The 2016 South Korean political scandal involves the influence of Choi Soon-sil,the daughter of shaman-esque cult leader Choi Tae-min,over President Park Geun-hye of South Korea.
The impeachment of Park Geun-hye,President of South Korea,was the culmination of a political scandal involving interventions to the presidency from her aide,Choi Soon-sil. The impeachment vote took place on 9 December 2016,with 234 members of the 300-member National Assembly voting in favour of the impeachment and temporary suspension of Park Geun-hye's presidential powers and duties. This exceeded the required two-thirds threshold in the National Assembly and,although the vote was by secret ballot,the results indicated that more than half of the 128 lawmakers in Park's party Saenuri had supported her impeachment. Thus,Hwang Kyo-ahn,then Prime Minister of South Korea,became Acting President while the Constitutional Court of Korea was due to determine whether to accept the impeachment. The court upheld the impeachment in a unanimous 8–0 decision on 10 March 2017,removing Park from office. The regularly scheduled presidential election was advanced to 9 May 2017,and Moon Jae-in,former leader of the Democratic Party,was elected as Park's permanent successor.
Cho Yoon-sun is a South Korean lawyer,writer and politician. She formerly served as the South Korean Minister of Gender Equality and Family and later as its Minister of Culture,however she was later jailed after being convicted of abuse of power and coercion.
Lee Nak-yon,also known as Lee Nak-yeon,is a South Korean politician who served as the 41st Prime Minister of South Korea from 2017 to 2020. A member of the Democratic Party of Korea,he is the longest-serving prime minister since the Constitution of South Korea was last revised in 1987. Lee previously held the governorship of Jeollanam-do province from 2014 to 2017,a stronghold of his party. Before serving as governor,he worked as a journalist for over 20 years and served as a member of the National Assembly for four terms.
The 2018 opinion rigging scandal in South Korea is a political scandal that erupted in April 2018 after a group of ardent supporters of the South Korean President Moon Jae-in had been charged with online opinion rigging. The accused suspects were the members of the ruling Democratic Party (DPK). The main perpetrator,as well as the leader of the pro-Moon group,was a well-known power-blogger called "Druking."
The Burning Sun scandal,also known as Burning Sun gate,was a 2019 entertainment and sex scandal in Seoul,South Korea,which involved several celebrities,including Korean idols of popular K-pop groups,and police officials. It was the largest scandal to hit the K-pop industry. The allegations of sex crimes added to the country's "epidemic" of what is called molka,a Korean word for the online distribution of unconsented sex videos taken of women,and the scandal became fodder for political parties,who argued over how to handle it.
Yoon Suk Yeol is a South Korean politician who has been serving as the 13th and current president of South Korea since 2022. Prior to his presidency,he served as the prosecutor general of South Korea between 2019 and 2021.
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,meaning that incumbent president Moon Jae-in was ineligible to run for a second term. Opposition candidate Yoon Suk-yeol of the People Power Party won the election,defeating candidate Lee Jae-myung of the incumbent Democratic Party.
