South Korea

Finance Minister Choi Sang-mok is next in line to take on the mantle of the acting presidency, according to South Korean law.

South Korea’s parliament voted Saturday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol as authorities investigate allegations of rebellion over his controversial Dec. 3 martial law decree that has caused huge political turmoil in the country.

In its first coverage of last week’s short-lived martial law order, North Korean state media focused on protests calling for the ouster of President Yoon Suk Yeol.

President Yoon Suk Yeol plunged the East Asian democracy into chaos last week with his short-lived martial law declaration.

The head of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative People Power Party reversed his earlier position, signaling openness to his impeachment for declaring emergency martial law.

President Yoon Suk Yeol’s party said it would oppose a vote to impeach him on Saturday after he declared emergency martial law, only to lift the order hours later.

Thousands of South Korean protesters gathered outside President Yoon Suk Yeol to step down after declared martial law for a short time on Monday.

President Yoon Suk Yeol shocked the East Asian democracy by declaring martial law only to lift the order hours later under intense pressure.

NBC10 Boston political analyst Sue O’Connell breaks down the brief declaration of martial law in South Korea and, with parallels to recent American events, what it says about the fragility of democracy around the world....

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With debate surrounding a martial law declaration in South Korea this week, many are wondering what does such a declaration actually mean and what are the rules around it?

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law Tuesday night in an unannounced TV address.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said early Wednesday that he would soon lift the military rule he imposed overnight, after the parliament voted to reject his martial law declaration.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “got out his golf clubs for the first time in eight years and resumed his golf practice” as he gets ready to meet President-elect Donald Trump in person, his office told NBC News on Monday.

4B is a feminist movement that is believed to have originated in South Korea which calls for women to not date, marry, have sex with, or have children with men.

An 81-year-old South Korean fashion model fell short in her bid to become the oldest Miss Universe contestant.

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French government endorsed it.

South Korean officials said that providing Samsung smartphones to North Korean athletes at the Paris Olympics would violate U.N. Security Council sanctions against the country over its nuclear and missile program.

A U.S. Air Force pilot safely ejected from an F-16 fighter jet that crashed into waters off South Korea’s southwestern coast on Wednesday, in the second such crash in less than two months.

Some angry dog farmers said they plan to challenge the bill’s constitutionality and hold protest rallies, a sign of continued heated debate over the ban.

South Korea says North Korea has conducted artillery drills along the rivals’ tense sea boundary in violation of ar 2018 military agreement.