A finance ministry spokesperson declined to comment. Yoon's Dec 3 martial declaration stunned South Korea and led to the first arrest warrant to be issued for a sitting president.

And the longer the stand-off, the more damaging it is for South Korea's democratic reputation. The ultra conservative's two-and-a-half years in office have been marked by scandal. His attempt to ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean investigators left the official residence of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after a near-six-hour standoff during which he defied their attempt to detain him.

South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol remained ... Even so, one expert put Yoon's chance of arrest at around 50 percent, warning that his security team and supporters might trigger ...

(AP) According to the Korea Herald, the newlyweds were returning from their honeymoon when they died in the crash. They tied the knot just two weeks before the fateful day. With them, a 50-year ...

The country’s fire service has said that two crew were rescued from the wreckage, but it is the worst aviation disaster ever in South Korea. The Jeju Air flight from Bangkok crashed while ...

A Jeju Air plane crash in South Korea became the country’s deadliest plane disaster in decades Sunday, killing 179 people with only two survivors and shocking the country and world, prompting an ...

They said they had on December 18 received a notice summoning them to a Workers' Party of Korea committee event to distribute the certificates. The event was reportedly attended by about a dozen ...

After two leaders were impeached in as many weeks, a deadly plane crash has prompted South Korea’s feuding political camps to temporarily halt a protracted power struggle. In the immediate ...

All 181 passengers and crew aboard a passenger jet that crashed upon landing in South Korea on Sunday morning are presumed dead except for two people rescued from the wreckage, authorities said.

A Jeju Air plane flying from Bangkok to South Korea with 181 people on board crashed on landing Sunday, killing 179 with just two people plucked alive from the wreckage. Here's what we know so far.

His daughter was one of the 179 people who died in the plane crash on Sunday morning at South Korea's Muan International Airport. "This is unbelievable," he told reporters. The plane crash was ...