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Park Chan-kyong
Park Chan-kyong is a journalist covering South Korean affairs for the South China Morning Post. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse's Seoul bureau for 35 years. He studied political science at Korea University and economics at the Yonsei University Graduate School.
Park Chan-kyong is a journalist covering South Korean affairs for the South China Morning Post. He previously worked at the Agence France-Presse's Seoul bureau for 35 years. He studied political science at Korea University and economics at the Yonsei University Graduate School.
Yoon Suk-yeol’s former ruling party has offered a belated mea culpa, but critics see the move as nothing more than a cynical election ploy.
The test also appears to indicate Pyongyang’s objection to South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s visit to Beijing.
State media has released images of the first recorded visit of Kim Ju-ae, the teen daughter of Kim Jong-un, to the country’s most sacred site.
Kim praised North Korean troops fighting in the Ukraine war for their unwavering bravery for the sake of ‘the brotherly Russian people’.
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Observers urge South Korea to integrate itself into European supply chains by increasing production localisation to maintain competitiveness.
Analysts say the findings have raised questions about whether South Korea’s laws can deal with alleged abuses of power by a president’s spouse.
During a hearing, Yoon appears tense and laughs in disbelief as special prosecutors present the charges in his first trial.
The unprecedented transparency from the normally secretive country shows a shift in North Korean defence strategy, analysts say.
The two aides’ testimonies give a rare insight into the thinking of the former president, who is charged with leading the ‘insurrection’.
The ruling DPK has accepted the opposition’s proposal to appoint special prosecutors to look into the church’s political meddling and bribes.
The changes target high-stakes national security cases amid mounting criticism over delays and alleged bias.
Judges are fast-tracking verdicts to beat statutory time limits, dashing the ex-president’s faint hopes of walking free early next year.
In Kim Jong-un’s public grief for fallen mine-clearers, observers see a strategic play to lock in a role in Russia’s post-war rebuilding.
Announcing the results of a massive 180-day inquiry on Monday, special prosecutors said Yoon Suk-yeol aimed to form a military junta.
President Lee’s move comes as a widening Unification Church bribery scandal implicates lawmakers from both major parties.
After Yoon Suk-yeol wasted millions on a move critics linked to fortune-tellers, the presidential office is returning to its historic home.
Cho Jin-woong has quit acting after a decades-old robbery conviction shattered a public image built playing morally upright heroes.
The former first lady, who faces a raft of corruption allegations, will receive the court’s ruling on January 28.
Marking the first anniversary of the crisis, Lee Jae-myung hailed those who faced down troops for ‘saving democracy’.
Concerns are growing that the judiciary, dominated by Yoon-appointed judges, may acquit the former president of insurrection charges.
Analysts say the event served a dual purpose: grooming Kim’s potential successor and angling for Russian jets as payment for Ukraine war aid.
The former prime minister would be the first person sentenced in connection with the decree. Prosecutors have demanded a 15-year prison term.
Prosecutors now suspect ex-president Yoon’s martial law gambit was a desperate bid to shield his interfering wife from looming prison time.
Renovations at Yongbyon seemingly prove Kim Jong-un is serious about expanding his arsenal – but Seoul has a bunker-busting response.
The renewed dispute undermines Seoul’s efforts to restore trilateral cooperation in Northeast Asia amid rising threats from North Korea.
The former South Korean president was already mulling a self-coup as early as six months into his term, indictment papers show.
Now the North sees the South as a ‘quasi-nuclear weapons state’ with US help, a fourth Trump-Kim summit appears less likely than ever.
While Seoul could expand its security roles, analysts warn the shift from strategic ambiguity could upset its US-China balancing act.
A key aspect of the document details US approval for South Korea to build nuclear-powered attack submarines.
