Lawyers for South Korea’s impeached president say he will appear at a hearing in a Seoul court to oppose a formal arrest over last month’s imposition of martial law.

South Korean court orders formal arrest of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived martial law decree.

A total of 11 traditional Korean poems known as sijo were launched into space on a rocket heading for the moon on Wednesday.

Yoon was brought into custody about three hours after hundreds of law enforcement officers entered the residential compound ...

South Korea has developed into one of Asia's most affluent countries since partition in 1948. The Communist North has slipped ...

SEOUL — Investigators on Friday halted their efforts to detain impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, following an impasse that lasted more than five hours as Yoon’s presidential ...

South Korean investigators have failed to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a nearly six-hour standoff with his security service. It is the latest confrontation of a political crisis ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. South Korean investigators have abandoned their attempt to arrest President Yoon Suk Yeol after an hours ...

Soldiers sent by Pyongyang to fight alongside Moscow's troops in southern Russia "got drunk on New Year's Eve," Ukraine's GUR military intelligence said, claiming "fighting spirit of North Korean ...

South Korean police have raided Muan International ... by a period of silent reflection instead of the usual countdown full of cheers. According to South Korea’s emergency office, the jet ...