KELLY is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Pusan National University. With democracies around the world under duress, South Korea seems to stand out as an example of resilience.

The January 17 court riot was sparked by the same rage as laid bare in 2017, with one key difference: this time, it was young ...

Park Sun-won was caught on camera sharing a handwritten note with two prominent members of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) — Chairman Lee Jae-myung and floor leader Kim Min ...

Choi is projected to face major hurdles in appointing a new defense minister, however, with the main opposition Democratic Party claiming that he does not have the authority to do so. In Korea’s ...

The bottom line is that social justice for Democrats has become little more than virtue signaling. Rather than trying to bridge the gulf between rich and poor, the Democrats have become the party ...

Democrats lost in 2024 because we have become the party of the status quo and could ... meeting with union members who were increasingly independent voters. Barack Obama played basketball with ...

His decision clears the way for his governing Liberal Democratic Party ... members to report political donations, and resurfaced controversy over the LDP’s decades-old ties with the South Korea ...

These problems include China’s maritime expansion and North Korea’s nuclear and missile ... forces with the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party. Although the JCP objects ...

It’s an issue that Democrats could be leveraging to their benefit. But in the absence of a single leader during their time in the wilderness, the most prominent members of their party are as old ...

The Social Democrats ... The Left Party wants to restructure the pension system. In future, everyone should pay into a state system, including civil servants, the self-employed and members ...

The DSA has been, for several decades, an attempt to create a democratic socialist party which could harness wide support among Americans for real social and economic progress. If DSA’s members still ...

South Korean President Yoon's recent declaration of martial law highlights the nation's political disfunction. Dr. Yul Sohn ...