W HEN SOUTH KOREA’S president, Yoon Suk Yeol, sent troops streaming into the country’s National Assembly on December 3rd, Lee Jae-myung turned on his livestream. Viewers watched on a shaky smartphone ...

South Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been formally arrested, days after being apprehended at his ...

Yoon has maintained his official residence and presidential security. Choi Sang-mok, South Korea’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, is the country’s acting president. Thousands of ...

The charges are unprecedented for a South Korean president, and if convicted, Yoon Suk Yeol could face years in prison for ...

The party’s reluctance has produced a protracted crisis. The South Korean prime minister, also from the PPP, became acting president after Yoon’s impeachment. But rather than trying to unite the ...

Han Duck-soo has stepped in as caretaker president since lawmakers voted to impeach Yoon Suk Yeol earlier this month South Korea's opposition ... the country's prime minister and acting leader ...

South Korea's political leadership was in uncharted ... Choi, a member of Yoon's ruling People Power Party who also serves as deputy prime minister and finance minister, is yet to comment on ...

In Japan, where the left is rarely elected, a moderate conservative willing to admit imperial misbehaviour must be prime minister. In South Korea, where the left is relentlessly anti-Japanese ...

South Korean investigators have suspended efforts ... in political disarray with parliament also voting to impeach its prime minister and acting president Han Duck-soo, just weeks after it voted ...

SEOUL — South Korean investigators left the official ... demand” that the country’s acting leader, Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok, instruct the service to comply with their execution ...

said Friday that the crisis in South Korea had resulted in “paralysis of its state administration and spiraling socio-political confusion.” While Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was initially ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean investigators left ... demand” that the country’s acting leader, Deputy Prime Minister Choi Sang-mok, instruct the service to comply with their execution ...