Many of the young people who joined the Gwang Jang protests do not belong to existing political or social groups; they call themselves “hornets” (말벌) — a newly coined term that originated from a meme ...

Lee Jun-seok of the New Reform Party and Kwon Young ... including then-conservative candidate and now former President Yoon Suk Yeol who was ousted in April, and Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic ...

South Koreans are voting for a new president in a snap election triggered by the ouster of Yoon Suk Yeol, a conservative who is facing rebellion charges over his short-lived imposition of martial ...

The National Assembly on Thursday passed bills to launch special counsel probes into insurrection charges surrounding former President Yoon Suk Yeol over his failed martial law bid and allegations ...

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol attended the fifth hearing of his insurrection trial Monday as controversy continued over his influence on next week's presidential election.

On the 7th, the first weekend rally since President Lee Jae-myung's inauguration was held across various locations in Seoul, with gatherings urging the arrest of former President Yoon Seok-youl ...

Liberal Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) candidate Lee Jae-myung's victory in Tuesday's snap presidential election reflects widespread public anger over former President Yoon Suk Yeol's abrupt ...

With ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol’s trial set to run until mid-December, he won't face a verdict until several months after the new president is elected. The Criminal Act stipulates that those ...

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The election caps a particularly turbulent several months in the country’s politics that began with right-wing President Yoon Suk Yeol declaration ... Lee Jun-seok. Lee, a 40-year-old legislator ...

Yoon Suk Yeol has become South Korea’s first incumbent president to be arrested after he was charged with insurrection for declaring martial law last month and thrusting the country into ...

When his conservative South Korean party bowed to show remorse for ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol's disastrous martial law decree, Kim Moon-soo sat alone and resolute in symbolic non-apology.