By: Shim Jae Hoon
Contrary to its image in recent years as a steadily liberalizing polity, South Korea’s governing party is sliding backward in what many critics deride as deja vu. The Democratic Party, as President Moon Jae-in stands in the background with arms folded, is pushing through the single-chamber National Assembly a law bill penalizing what it…
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