Written : 2025-05-06 18:00:00 KST
With less than a month to go until the presidential election, the Democratic Party is battling on legal and campaign fronts, while the conservative bloc faces growing tensions over its potential merger with a former prime minister. Our Kim Do-yeon reports.
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front 전선, 전방
bloc 연합[블록]
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The Democratic Party of Korea appears to be fighting on two fronts in the presidential election. First, its candidate Lee Jae-myung continued his campaign in the Chungcheong-do region on Tuesday. He also rolled out pledges targeting young voters—vowing to require all public institutions to count military service toward salary grades, and to introduce spot ETFs for cryptocurrencies.
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roll out 출시하다, 내놓다
pledge 약속, 서약
public institution 공공기관
count 계산에 넣다, 포함시키다
salary grades 봉급의 등급
spot ETFs 현물 상장지수펀드
상장지수펀드; 특정 주가 지수에 따라 수익률이 결정되는 인덱스 펀드를 주식처럼 사고팔 수 있게 증권 시장에 상장한 펀드.
cryptocurrencies 암호화폐
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But perhaps more headlines came from the second front, as party leaders kept up pressure on the Supreme Court to delay all trials involving presidential candidates until after the June 3rd election. Following the Court's decision to overturn an appeals ruling in Lee's election law case, he's now set to appear for a retrial hearing on May 15.
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The DP accuses Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae of political bias—speeding up the process and effectively convicting Lee despite the earlier acquittal. "He was effectively the planner and executor of political interference, election meddling, and a targeted trial. This amounts to grounds for impeachment."
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political bias 정치적 편향성
convict 유죄를 선고하다, 유죄 판결을 내리다
acquittal 무죄 선고 (↔conviction)
amount to ) …에 해당하다
grounds for impeachment 탄핵의 근거
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Meanwhile, the People Power Party candidate Kim Moon-soo halted all campaign activities and wrapped up his visit to Gyeongsangbuk-do Province early to go back to Seoul. This as he remains at odds with party leadership over a potential merger with independent candidate and former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo.
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at odds with … 와 불화하여, (~와) 뜻이 맞지 않아
independent candidate 무소속 입후보자
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While he was vocal about the merger during the primary he now says he wants to take time, but the Party says with the official candidate registration coming up there is no time to waste. Kim claimed that the Party is trying to remove him as the Party's presidential candidate. "If this was the plan all along, I don't understand why we held three rounds of primaries.
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vocal (의견을) 강경하게 밝히는
all along 내내[죽]
primary 예비 선거
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So as of now, I'm suspending all my activities as the party's candidate. I'll be heading back to Seoul to seriously address the pressing issues that remain." This comes as the PPP held its second all-floor meeting in as many days, where the party's interim leader Kwon Young-se called for a survey among PPP registered supporters on whether they support a merger.
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address the pressing issues 시급한 현안을 다루다
all-floor meeting 전체 의원 총회
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All this without notifying Kim. As for ex-PM Han he said he's not once thought about the merger falling through. He said that would be a betrayal of the citizens as he faced the media earlier on Tuesday. In the afternoon he met with another former prime minister and presidential candidate Lee Nak-yon. Lee despite being from DP is in the anti-Lee Jae-myung camp and could lock arms with Han in this election on the premise of amending the constitution. Kim Do-yeon, Arirang News.
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fall through 완료[실현]되지 못하다
lock arms with ~ 와 연대하다
on the premise of ~ 을 전제로
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