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Moon Jae-in
Moon Jae-in was president of South Korea from 2017 to 2022.
Born
24 Jan 1953
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Former President of South Korea
last updated:
7 October, 2024
Illustration: Craig Stephens
Diplomacy

Opinion | China should seize the moment to promote peace on Korean peninsula

The weakening of the Russia-North Korea alliance, political change in South Korea and Trump’s return create a conducive environment for denuclearisation talks.

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South Korea martial law 2024

The fall of Yoon Suk-yeol: from South Korea’s rising star to impeachment

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Japan

Will ties between Japan and South Korea worsen if Yoon Suk-yeol is ousted?

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South Korea

Former South Korean officials accused of THAAD data leak to China, activists

South Korea’s state auditor alleges that the former officials disclosed the details in a bid to slow down the full deployment of THAAD.

THAAD interceptors arrive in Seongju, South Korea, in September 2017. Photo: News1 via Reuters
South Korea

Opinion | A wise South Korea would rise above the North’s trash balloons

Seoul should take the initiative in reducing tensions, even if it looks weak. In the inter-Korean chess game, a retreat could be a power move.

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South Korea

South Korea investigates if ex-first lady used public funds for 2018 India trip

Former first lady Kim Jung-sook’s jaunt attracted renewed scrutiny after her husband Moon Jae-in shed light on why she travelled to India in his memoir published last month.

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Diplomacy

Opinion | To defuse tensions with North Korea, let the European Union try

North Korea has declared South Korea an enemy and shown no interest in responding to US overtures. Without the baggage of hostile relations, the European Union can engage North Korean in dialogue and at least learn about Pyongyang’s intentions.

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Employees of the Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex pose for a photo as they read a copy of the Rodong Sinmun newspaper covering North Korea’s demolition of the North-South joint liaison office, in Pyongyang on June 17, 2020. Photo: AFP
South Korea

After South Korea’s Dior bag scandal, a Chanel coat comes under scrutiny

The ruling party says it will investigate the wife of former leader Moon Jae-in for allegedly buying a Chanel jacket with taxpayers’ money.

North Korea

Letters | North Korea’s message should spark a rethink of the South’s peace strategy

Readers discuss why the South Korean fantasy of achieving intra-Korean peace through appeasement has been shattered, and parallels between Russia and Israel.

Diplomacy

Asian Games a chance for China to break the ice with sports diplomacy

Can Beijing mend fences with its neighbours in Northeast Asia as host of the region’s sporting spectacular?

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South Korea

South Korea’s ‘pro-US’ Pacific tilt triggers alarm, warnings in China

President Yoon Suk-yeol’s Pacific overtures reflect his desire for South Korea to become a ‘global pivotal state’ with a ‘bold’ foreign policy – but could it turn into a ‘nightmare’?

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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol (right) shakes hands with Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown during a dinner party for the Korea-Pacific Islands Summit at a Seoul hotel last month. Photo: South Korean Presidential Office /EPA-EFE
Diplomacy

Opinion | Peace on Korean peninsula won’t be won by recycling failed hardline approaches

South Korea’s national security strategy centres on boosting deterrence, sanctions and response capabilities to North Korean threats – – all methods that have failed to get Pyongyang to denuclearise

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South Korea

South Korea pivots to ‘hard-line’ on China as Yoon questions envoy’s comments

The South Korean president said he doubted whether China’s ambassador ‘has an attitude of mutual respect’, as local media reported that Seoul was pivoting to a ‘hard-line stance’ in its relations with Beijing.

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South Korea

Seoul-Tokyo WWII sex slaves’ details will not be revealed, top court rules

In 2015, the two countries signed a controversial deal on the sexual enslavement of South Korean women by Japan during World War II; this latest ruling is viewed as favouring President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has been striving to improve relations with Japan.

Portraits of late former sex slaves who were forced to serve for the Japanese Army during World War II in South Korea. Photo: AP
Japan

Japan and South Korea are cosying up because ‘it makes perfect sense’

Seoul and Tokyo are seeking a thaw in relations as shared security concerns push them to fulfil their roles as otherwise ‘natural allies’.

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South Korea’s Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan’s Fumio Kishida. Photo: AP
North Korea

‘I still dream about North Korea’: lonely defectors regret fleeing to South

‘I am so lonely,’ said one defector whose son was beaten to death by North Korean authorities when they discovered she had fled. ‘I want to go back and die there – South Korea is as suffocating as the North.’

Diplomacy

Opinion | South Korea’s hardline stance is failing as Kim fires off missiles, threats

Several North Korean missiles have been fired in response to US-South Korean drills as Pyongyang warns of war provocations, and talk in Seoul turns to nuclear arms. What happened to diplomacy and dialogue?

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North Korea

North and South Korea remain as divided as ever, 70 years after truce

North Korea’s communications with the South and the UN Command have dwindled in recent years, with Covid-19 further encouraging its retreat from in-person meetings.

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The so-called Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separates North and South Korea. Photo: AFP
South Korea

Ex-South Korean justice minister jailed 2 years for graft

South Korea

Opinion | Why nuclear weapons should never be an option for South Korea

The South Korean president has raised the possibility of the country acquiring nuclear weapons if the security situation on the peninsula continues to deteriorate. However, this would lose Seoul the moral high ground, leaving only military options on the table, and rapidly change the regional security dynamic.

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Can Tokyo and Seoul resolve wartime labour issue as China concerns grow?

Japan has kept out of the domestic debate in South Korea but is keen to strengthen defence ties with Seoul given regional security concerns over China and North Korea.

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South Korean opposition lawmakers and supporters of the victims of Japan’s wartime forced labour protest Yoon Suk-yeol government’s solution to the forced labour issue. Photo: AFP
South Korea

Seoul says North Korean drone entered crucial no-fly zone

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff last week denied a drone intruded into a no-fly zone near the presidential office, but reversed its stance on Thursday and confirmed it had violated the northern end of the area.

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South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol is shown on a TV screen in Seoul. Photo: AP/File
South Korea

Seoul warns North Korea over buffer zone pact if it ‘violates’ airspace again

An analyst said the agreement helped in ‘preventing a major military clash’ between the two Koreas and scrapping it would increase the chance of ‘an actual clash in border areas’.

South Korea

South Korea’s former leader Moon Jae-in has no peace in retirement

North Korea

South Korea says North Korea fired artillery rounds near border

The firings came days after Washington, Seoul and Tokyo announced largely symbolic sanctions on some North Koreans and institutions accused of illicit activities to finance the country’s nuclear weapons and missile programmes.

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A TV screen shows a file image of North Korea’s military exercise during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station on October 19, 2022. South Korea’s military said North Korea fired about 130 suspected artillery rounds on Monday into the water near their western and eastern sea borders, the latest military action contributing to worsening relations between the neighbours. Photo: AP
South Korea

Seoul arrests ex-top security official over border killing

Suh Hoon’s arrest came as President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative government investigates its predecessor Moon Jae-in’s handling of the killing and another incident.

Suh Hoon, South Korea’s former national security director, has been arrested over a suspected cover-up surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official in 2020. Photo: Reuters
South Korea

Former South Korean leader to give up dogs given by Kim Jung-un

South Korea

‘It is regretful’: South Korea’s Moon Jae-in to give up dogs from Kim Jong-un

The white Pungsan dogs are legally categorised as state property, but the former president took them to his personal residence after his term ended in May under an agreement his office said fell apart due to his successor’s ‘unexplained opposition’.

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