Monthly Archives: April 2025

South Korean Presidents and controversies

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With the impeachment of President Yoon Sun-Yeol (December 2024 to April 2025), many have reflected on the downfall of several modern leaders in South Korea. The Korea Herald featured a visual highlighting the controversies of these leaders.

A special election will be held on 6/3/2025 to select the next President. “Under South Korean law, a presidential election must be held within 60 days of a president’s removal from office.”

We have covered several Korean Presidents in our series.

President – 대통령 (daetong-lyeong)

To impeach – 탄핵하다 (tanhaek-hada)

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Free WiFi on Korea’s bus networks

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Starting April 8, 2025, all express bus passengers in Korea will have access to free WiFi without any login pages or passwords. There are eight bus companies in Korea and the Wi-Fi network name will be the English name of the bus company.

Free WiFi will cover 240 express bus routes and 1,724 buses at speeds up to 400Mbps. Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

KTX, SRT high-speed rail, subways, and city buses already offer free-WiFi.

More on buses in Korea in our posts.

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Korean exports to the U.S. and Trump’s Reciprocal tariffs.

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President Trump has enacted 25% tariff’s on goods coming from Korea to the U.S. And beginning at 1pm on April 3, 2025, a 25% tariff began on Korean automobiles imported into the U.S.

According to the Korea Times, “No U.S. tariffs had been imposed on Korean cars since 2016 under a bilateral free trade agreement.” In all, Korea has the highest tariff rate among all free trade agreement countries with the U.S.

Imports – 수입 (su-ip)

Exports – 수출 (su-chul)

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