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April 24, 2024

40-something YouTuber Who Wanted to Monitor for Election Fraud in South Korea Jailed

2024-4-24, Tara O A 40-something YouTuber concerned about election fraud installed CC cameras in 40 precincts in South Korea for the April 2024 general election. He, like many South Korean...

Censorship/Election Fraud/Elections/Human Rights/Lawfare Comments: 0

April 9, 2024

Democratic Party of Korea Targets 200 Seats for Itself and Related Parties in 2024 General Election

2024-4-9, Tara O The Democratic Party of Korea has been stating their target of obtaining 200 seats (of 300 total seats) in the 2024 General Election to elect the members...

Elections Comment: 1

April 9, 2024

Democratic Party of Korea Aimed for 31.3% Early Voting Rate, And Got It

2024-4-9, Tara O On April 7, 2024, the National Election Commission of South Korea announced that the early voting rate in the April 2024 general election was 31.28%, the highest...

Elections Comments: 0

April 5, 2024

South Korean Election Commission Early Vote Count Greater than Number of Observed Voters

2024-4-5, Tara O South Korea’s general election is on April 10, 2024. This election will select 300 lawmakers for South Korea’s National Assembly, which is the Korean equivalent of the...

Election Fraud/Elections Comments: 0

January 19, 2024

North Korea-Russia Missile and Satellite Technology Cooperation

2024-1-19, Tara O North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui and Russian President Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, on January 16, 2024. The document detailed below indicates...

Missiles/North Korea/Russia

November 18, 2023

China’s 38 Fake News Sites Disseminating Pro-China, Anti-US, Anti-Japan Content in South Korea

2023-11-18, Tara O Chinese organizations posing as South Korean media-related PR companies have established 38 news sites disguised as South Korean domestic media outlets, which are spreading pro-China, anti-America, and...

China/Influence Operations/Psychological Operations

November 5, 2023

Major South Korean Political Parties Signed Agreements with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

2023-11-5, Tara O Two major political parties in South Korea have signed agreements with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Furthermore, a large number of lawmakers, 100, signed up to be...

China/Influence Operations/South Korea/Subversion

September 13, 2023

National Assembly Exhibits Bust of Mao Zedong, War Criminal of the Korean War…Titled “Savior”

2023-9-12, Chosun Ilbo [TRANSLATION] On September 11, 2023, it was discovered that a bust of Mao Zedong, a war criminal of the Korean War, was displayed in the National Assembly....

China/Communism/Influence Operations/Psychological Operations/Translation of Korean News

September 8, 2023

Gwangju, Chinese Communist Party, and the Zheng Lucheng Controversy in Korea

2023-9-8, Tara O The City of Gwangju (Kwangju) in South Jeolla Province in Korea has been paying tribute to a communist, Zheng Lucheng (Chinese pronunciation: Zheng Lucheng, 鄭律成, 정뤼청, Korean...

China/Communism/Influence Operations/Korean War

May 25, 2023

North Korea’s Spies Also in the Progressive Party and Teachers’ Union in South Korea

2023-5-24, Munhwa Ibo [TRANSLATION] Above: KTU members block the police and National Intelligence Service (NIS) search & seizure of KTU office in Chuncheon City, Gangwon Province, 2023-5-23, Yonhap News Mr....

Information Operations/Intelligence/North Korea/Spy/Subversion/Translation of Korean News

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