South Korea's third acting leader in five months, Lee Ju-ho, is an understated labour economist and education bureaucrat ...

The nonprofit journalism organization Reporters Without Borders, or RSF, announced Friday that press freedom is at its lowest ...

The second trial regarding former President Yoon Suk-yeol's charge of leading a rebellion ... procedures after the cross-examination that day. Hong Sang-soo joins jury at 78th Cannes Film Festival ...

FILE - South Korea's conservative former top prosecutor Yoon Suk Yeol delivers his speech after being chosen as presidential election candidate in Seoul, South Korea, on Nov. 5, 2021. (Kim Hong-ji ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea will hold a snap presidential election June 3 to succeed recently ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol ... He and Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo opposed impeaching ...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday that agents in Chicago intercepted hundreds of counterfeit watches and ...

South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol rose from star prosecutor to the presidency ... That is very concerning," Ji Yeon Hong, a political science professor at University of Michigan, told AFP.

South Korea’s constitutional court upheld the parliament’s decision to impeach the country’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, on April 4. The court stated that, by declaring martial law in December ...

South Korea will hold a snap presidential election within 60 days after the Constitutional Court unanimously removed ...

Also in today’s newsletter, CIA looks to recruit new Chinese spies, and Bank of Japan slashes growth forecasts ...