South Korea’s opposition leader has urged President Yoon Suk Yeol to accept special investigations into allegations involving top officials and his wife.
Emboldened by his party’s recent election win, South Korea’s opposition leader pressured President Yoon Suk Yeol to accept special investigations into allegations involving top officials and his wife, as they met Monday for talks on bipartisan cooperation. The meeting was their first since Yoon took office in 2022 after defeating Lee Jae-myung in the country’s closest presidential election race.
In his lengthy opening remarks, Lee said the election results mean 'the people’s stern demand for correcting wrong government administrations,' addressing economic troubles and restoring democratic rules. Lee urged Yoon to accept independent probes into the 2022 Halloween crush in Seoul that killed 159 people, and the 2023 death of a marine who drowned during a search-and-rescue operation for flood victims.
Yoon has said South Korea needs to create more doctors as it has one of the world’s most rapidly aging populations and its doctors-to-patient ratio is among the lowest in advanced economies. Doctors say schools can’t deal with a too steep increase in students, but critics say they simply worry the supply of more doctors would eventually result in lowering their income.
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