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Latest news and updates on Yoon Suk-yeol who was sworn in as president of South Korea on May 10, 2022.
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18 Dec 1960
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South Korea’s Constitutional Court justices attend a hearing in Seoul on Thursday to deliver a verdict on the impeachment of former police chief Cho Ji-ho over his role in former president Yoon Suk-yeol’s failed martial law bid. Photo: EPA
South Korea

South Korea’s top court seeks to restore trust after martial law controversy

The changes target high-stakes national security cases amid mounting criticism over delays and alleged bias.

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South Korea’s police chief removed for supporting martial law plot

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South Korea reopens debate on lifting ban on North Korean media

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South Korean court rules Yoon’s ‘self-coup’ illegal as walls close in

Judges are fast-tracking verdicts to beat statutory time limits, dashing the ex-president’s faint hopes of walking free early next year.

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A television screen shows a file image of Yoon Suk-yeol in court at a railway station in Seoul on Monday. Photo: AP
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Video | South Korea’s Yoon plotted martial law all along, prosecutors say

The prosecutors’ investigation found Yoon had been seeking to provoke a military confrontation with North Korea and to upset constitutional order.

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Martial law plot was Yoon’s plan all along, South Korean prosecutors say

Announcing the results of a massive 180-day inquiry on Monday, special prosecutors said Yoon Suk-yeol aimed to form a military junta.

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South Korea

South Korea’s threat to dissolve corrupt religious groups risks blowback

President Lee’s move comes as a widening Unification Church bribery scandal implicates lawmakers from both major parties.

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Members of the Unification Church protest in Seoul against the media coverage of their group after the assassination of former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe in 2022. Photo: AFP
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Shaman rumours resurface as South Korea returns to Blue House

After Yoon Suk-yeol wasted millions on a move critics linked to fortune-tellers, the presidential office is returning to its historic home.

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Video | South Korea hosts ‘dark tour’ of martial law sites

More than 200 citizens revisited sites where soldiers stormed parliament in December 2024.

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‘I truly repent’: 15-year jail term sought for South Korean ex-first lady

The former first lady, who faces a raft of corruption allegations, will receive the court’s ruling on January 28.

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South Korea’s former first lady Kim Keon-hee arrives at the special prosecutor’s office in Seoul in August. Photo: AP
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Beijing blamed as Yoon’s martial law bid fuels disinformation in South Korea

South Korea’s political turmoil deepened as disinformation blamed China for Yoon’s impeachment, despite no evidence, reflecting rising sinophobia.

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Activists hold an anti-China rally in Gyeongju, South Korea on October 29, ahead of the APEC summit. Photo: The Korea Times
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South Koreans deserve Nobel Peace Prize for stopping martial law, president says

Marking the first anniversary of the crisis, Lee Jae-myung hailed those who faced down troops for ‘saving democracy’.

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South Korea proposes special court to address ‘mockery of judicial process’

Concerns are growing that the judiciary, dominated by Yoon-appointed judges, may acquit the former president of insurrection charges.

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A year on from South Korea’s martial law crisis, some lives are changed forever

A lawmaker, civil servant and the ‘tank woman’ recall the fight to protect the country’s democracy undermined by Yoon’s action.

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Soldiers try to enter the National Assembly building in Seoul on December 4 last year. Photo: AFP
South Korea

Unification Church leader denies knowing about gifts for Kim Keon-hee

South Korean prosecutors reject the claim, saying Han Hak-ja is an ‘absolute power holder’ and no funds can be used without her approval.

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Unification Church leader Han Hak-ja arrives at court to attend a hearing on September 22. Photo: Reuters
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South Korea awaits Han Duck-soo ruling as test case for martial law trials

The former prime minister would be the first person sentenced in connection with the decree. Prosecutors have demanded a 15-year prison term.

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Was South Korea’s former first lady the catalyst for martial law?

Prosecutors now suspect ex-president Yoon’s martial law gambit was a desperate bid to shield his interfering wife from looming prison time.

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‘Wipe them out’: Yoon’s dictatorial mindset evident before martial law attempt

The former South Korean president was already mulling a self-coup as early as six months into his term, indictment papers show.

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South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk-yeol attends his impeachment trial on February 11. Photo: AP
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South Korean teen dies after 8 hospitals refuse to treat him

The 18-year-old went into cardiac arrest after the hospitals had reportedly cited a lack of paediatric specialists for refusing care.

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Seoul’s backing of UN resolution tests limits of inter-Korean dialogue

Lee Jae-myung’s liberal government defies expectations of a retreat, in a move likely to trigger an angry reaction from Pyongyang.

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‘Prolong his power’: South Korea’s Yoon accused of using spy agency in coup

Cho Tae-yong’s arrest threatens to derail the NIS’ decades-long effort to be seen as politically neutral, analysts say.

Cho Tae-yong, a former chief of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, appears at the Seoul Central District Court on Tuesday. Photo: Yonhap/EPA
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‘Create instability’: Yoon accused of provoking North Korea to justify coup

Memos show the ex-president’s intelligence chief contemplated strikes on Kim Jong-un’s private resort and nuclear facilities.

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An American soldier observes a South Korean AH-64 Apache helicopter firing rockets during a live-fire exercise in Pocheon, near the inter-Korean border, on October 30, 2024. Photo: AFP
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North Korea prepared for war after South’s drone mission to Pyongyang: report

Prosecutors have accused the former president of ordering the mission to provoke a security crisis that could help him cling to power.

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‘Kill them all’: South Korea’s ex-president aimed to execute rivals, court hears

In shock testimony, a former commander claims Yoon Suk-yeol ordered political rivals captured so he could ‘shoot and kill them all’ himself.

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‘Not funny’: South Koreans unamused by US jokes about Trump’s gold crown gift

The social media responses reveal lingering resentment in South Korea over US tariffs and labour issues.

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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung (right) shakes hands with US President Donald Trump after presenting him with a replica of a Silla-era gold crown on Wednesday. Photo: EPA/Yonhap
Japan

Japan’s PM Takaichi and South Korea’s Lee pledge ‘forward-looking ties’ at Apec

Amid historical tensions, the two leaders signalled cooperation despite political challenges and regional pressures.

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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung (right) shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ahead of their talks in Gyeongju, South Korea on Thursday. Photo: EPA
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Opinion | ‘Triple trilateralism’ on Korean peninsula: force for peace or conflict?

The peninsula is characterised by three overlapping triangles whose interaction will shape Northeast Asia’s future and broader strategic stability.

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China-South Korea relations

China, South Korea eye ‘symbolic restart’ for ties during Xi’s visit: experts

Chinese leader’s first visit in more than a decade carries limited expectations as US and North Korean challenges loom.

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