Law enforcement authorities on Friday requested a court warrant to formally arrest South Korea’s impeached president ... But he will remain in custody as a Seoul court deliberates whether ...

A court of appeals on Thursday upheld a lower court's suspended prison sentence for a vandal indicted for drawing copycat graffiti on the wall of a landmark Joseon Dynasty royal palace in Seoul ...

Seoul’s Foreign and Unification ministries on Thursday unveiled their 2025 policy priorities, pledging to “proactively” prepare for the potential revival of US-North Korea nuclear talks ...

His lawyers failed Thursday evening to have the detainment order invalidated, with a Seoul court ruling that prosecutors were justified in holding the president. South Korea’s detention centers ...

A screen shows footage of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol as supporters stage a rally to oppose his impeachment near the presidential residence in Seoul [Lee Jin-man/AP Photo ...

Yoon left his presidential residence in the center of the capital Seoul in a convoy and arrived ... Yoon had plunged South Korea into a political crisis at the beginning of December by briefly ...

Ever since, Yoon has been sequestered behind rolls of barbed wire at his hilltop fortress within Seoul’s tony Hannam-dong district, dubbed “Korea’s Beverly Hills,” whose residents include ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean authorities tried and failed Friday to carry out an unprecedented arrest warrant for President Yoon Suk Yeol over his botched attempt to declare martial law in ...

(In fact, North Korea’s founder, Kim Il Sung ... also dangerous ideas,” says Andrei Lankov of Kookmin University in Seoul. Mr Kim has clearly decided the potential rewards outweigh any ...

Your browser does not support the <audio> element. THE PRESIDENCY of South Korea can be a treacherous job. Past office-holders have been impeached and even ...

The BBC's Shaimaa Khalil reports from between groups of protesters in Seoul, as South Korean investigators attempt to arrest impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol for a second time. He is being ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean authorities detained President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday over his botched declaration of martial law, weeks after a first attempt ended in a dramatic standoff ...