Amidst historic constitutional shifts, South Korea’s democracy endured a surprise attempt at a return to martial law. At the ...

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol greets his supporters after he came out of a detention center in Uiwang, South Korea, Saturday, March 8, 2025. (AP) ...

Supporters of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stage a rally near the presidential residence on Dec. 31, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. The detainment warrant for Yoon is valid until ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife Kim Keon Hee arrive for a celebration to mark 76th anniversary of Korea Armed Forces Day in Seongnam on October 1, 2024. Kim Hong-Ji/Pool/AFP ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted by the Constitutional Court on Friday, which upheld parliament's impeachment motion over his short-lived imposition of ...

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, in a message to conservative supporters rallying outside his Seoul residence, vowed to “fight to the end” against “anti-state forces." ...

Yoon Suk Yeol, 62, is the President of South Korea. He began his five-year term last May. Yoon defeated Democratic candidate Lee Jae-myung as a political newcomer, winning by a margin of less than 1%.

SEOUL, South Korea — The head of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s governing party on Friday signaled more openness to his removal as president for plunging the key U.S. ally into chaos ...

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol, already accused of insurrection, faced additional criminal charges after a special counsel expanded the investigation into his ill-fated declaration of martial law ...

Declaring martial law in a stable and boisterous democracy was an audacious gamble – and one that backfired spectacularly for former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. With Friday’s guilty ...

Yoon Suk-yeol helped prosecute presidents. Now he wants to be one. Mr. Yoon, the leading conservative candidate, hopes to win the election by appealing to South Koreans who are deeply dissatisfied ...