YouTuber’s controversial abortion in South Korea; migrants mock US immigration app
YouTuber's controversial abortion in South Korea; migrants mock US immigration app.…
‘Stop the steal’: Understanding MAGA-style protests in South Korea
This week, as South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol remained holed up in his presidential compound, thousands of his supporters guarding the site against attempts to arrest him held up US…
South Korea investigators halt Yoon arrest attempt
South Korean investigators had to abandon an attempt to arrest President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of insurrection. Authorities were locked in a nearly six-hour long standoff in a bid to detain…
Han Kang wins South Korea’s first Nobel Prize in Literature
South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life", the award-giving body said…
South Korea considers participation in AUKUS pact: defense minister
South Korea has held talks about joining a landmark defense technology pact between Australia, the United States and Britain.…
What’s behind new tensions between North and South Korea
North Korean state media has claimed Pyongyang tested a "nuclear trigger" simulation drill as a "warning signal" to the US and South Korea.…
What’s behind new tensions between North and South Korea
The allies of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have suffered a resounding defeat and lost their majority in parliament. Yoon might yet get a chance to recover, however, as his rivals…
As South Korea votes, threat from North looms over frontline island of Yeonpyeong
As South Koreans head to the polls for a parliamentary election, the country's worsening ties with North Korea are high on the agenda. The small South Korean island of Yeonpyeong is located…
South Korea elections: What is at stake?
A record number of South Koreans have taken advantage of early voting ahead of parliamentary elections on Wednesday, underlining the public's investment in a political landscape that analysts suggest is more fractured…
South Korea’s Moon urges Biden to follow Trump’s diplomacy with North
Moon Jae-in called on the US president-elect to continue talks with North Korea. Talks between Trump and Kim Jong Un stalled earlier over sanctions and limited progress on the North's nuclear program.…
South Korean court orders Japan to pay damages to ‘comfort women’
It's the first civilian legal case in South Korea regarding so-called "comfort women" who were forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II. The unprecedented ruling is likely to…