The Latest Breaking News from South Korea

Just a year ago, the South Korean president, Yoon Suk Yeol, addressed the UK parliament with a speech that praised the country as the birthplace of liberal democracy. He pledged that South Korea would join with the UK in promoting freedom, peace and prosperity for the international community.

Foreign nations react as calls grow for president’s resignation and impeachment

Conservative former prosecutor has taken a hardline stance on North Korea and says he is ‘anti-feminist’

Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun resigns in South Korea amid political turmoil and impeachment motion. President Yoon Suk Yeol faces criticism from various f...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol faces impeachment or resignation amid political turmoil.

President Yoon's attempt to declare martial law in South Korea raises concerns amidst the country's democratic history and political gridlock.

Tourists carried on as usual as they received worried texts from home

South Korea's brief episode of martial law declared by President Yoon Suk Yeol and swiftly revoked following parliamentary rejection.

Lawmakers present impeachment motion to parliament, accuse president of imposing martial law to evade investigations.

It was last imposed in 1979 by Prime Minister Choi Kyu-hah after the assassination of President Park Chung-hee, a military dictator who had seized power in a 1961 coup

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into Seoul’s streets with his baffling and sudden declaration of martial law that harkened to past dictatorships