South Korea

The unacknowledged ban began after South Korea announced the deployment of an American anti-ballistic missile defense system.

A South Korean court upheld the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, officially throwing him out of office over his botched imposition of martial law and setting the stage for a new presidential election, NBC News reported.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court overturned parliament’s impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating him as acting president.

The court ruled that President Yoon Suk Yeol’s detention was unjustified, paving the way for his release from custody on insurrection charges over his failed effort to declare martial law.

The number of babies born in South Korea rebounded for the first time in nine years in 2024, increasing by 8,300 the prior year.

South Korean actor Kim Sae-ron’s death this week has triggered an outpouring of grief and calls for changes to the way the country’s celebrities are treated in the public arena and on social media, which critics say can foster a culture of harassment.

South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been formally arrested, days after being apprehended at his presidential compound in Seoul.

South Korean authorities announced President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained Wednesday.

A first attempt ended in a dramatic standoff at the residence where President Yoon Suk Yeol has been holed up since he was impeached.

South Korean investigators left the president’s official residence after a nearly six-hour standoff during which he defied their attempt detain him in the latest confrontation of a political crisis that has paralyzed South Korean politics and seen two heads of state impeached in under a month.

Days after a passenger jet belly-landed and skidded off the end of the runway in South Korea, dozens of yellow and beige tents have been set up for relatives to sleep in as rescuers search the wreckage for the bodies of their loved ones.

South Korean officials said Monday they will conduct safety inspections of all Boeing 737-800 aircraft operated by the country’s airlines, as they struggle to determine what caused a plane crash that killed 179 people a day earlier.

A warrant for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeon was approved by a Seoul court on Tuesday. Yoon is the first sitting South Korean president to face arrest.

Some aviation experts say the damage could have been minimized had the plane not collided with the concrete wall.

Accident investigators are trying to find the cause of a Jeju Air fatal crash landing that killed 179 of the 181 on board the flight.

The plane operated, by South Korean budget airline Jeju Air, skidded off a runway at Muan International Airport Sunday before slamming into a concrete fence and bursting into a fireball.

South Korean law enforcement officials have requested a court warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol as they investigate whether his short-lived martial law decree this month amounted to rebellion.

Jeju Air Flight 2216 skidded off the runway while landing at Muan International Airport in South Korea, bursting into flames.

The plane skidded off a runway at Muan International Airport and caught fire after crashing, a fire official said.

Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok is next in line to take on the mantle of the acting presidency, according to South Korean law.