South Korea's Constitutional Court opened the impeachment trial of President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday over his failed martial ...

Although his failure to attend – which his team have blamed on purported safety concerns – forced a procedural adjournment, ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s fate remains in the balance after the suspended leader failed to appear at the first ...

Yoon's short-lived martial law declaration on 3 Dec has thrown South Korea into political turmoil. He had tried to justify ...

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The top aide of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has pleaded with law enforcement to abandon their efforts to detain him ...

The trial of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was set to start on Tuesday with oral arguments over his short-lived bid to ...

The Constitutional Court, an arbiter in a polarized nation, is about to consider whether Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment for ...

South Korea’s impeached president has received a pay rise despite being holed up inside a guarded compound after his botched ...

South Korea 's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol will receive a salary hike despite the ongoing investigation for placing his ...

Foreign ministers from South Korea and Japan met in Seoul on Monday to discuss strengthening their relations in the face of ...

For weeks, impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has holed up inside his guarded residential compound as ...