Featured Breaking News 19 February 2026 Breaking News: Yoon Suk-yeol Sentenced to Life Imprisonment for Insurrection On February 19, 2026, Seoul Central District Court sentenced former president Yoon Suk-yeol 윤석열 전 대통령 guilty of leading an insurrection by declaring an illegal martial law on December 3, 2024. Former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyeon 김용현 전 국방부 장관, former National Police Chief Jo Ji-ho 조지호 전 경찰청장, former
Featured Breaking News 3 June 2025 Breaking News: Lee Jae-myung Likely to Win the Presidential Election The liberal candidate is on his way toward a landslide win.
Featured Breaking News 3 April 2025 Breaking News: Yoon Suk-yeol is Removed from Office On April 4, 2025, at 11:22 a.m., the Constitutional Court 헌법재판소 sustained the impeachment of Yoon Suk-yeol 윤석열, removing him from the office. The court found that Yoon's martial law declaration was a serious infringement of the democratic order, and rejected Yoon's argument that
Featured Breaking News 14 January 2025 Breaking News: Yoon Suk-yeol is Arrested Long national nightmare over.
Featured Breaking News 14 December 2024 Breaking News Analysis: Yoon Suk-yeol is Impeached Voting and activism quelled the attempted coup.
Breaking News 3 December 2024 Breaking News: Yoon Suk-yeol Declares Martial Law On December 3, 2024 at 10:23 p.m., President Yoon Suk-yeol 윤석열 대통령 declared martial law 계엄령, in the first suspension of democratic rights in South Korea since the end of military dictatorship in 1987. In a statement, Yoon claimed that the National Assembly 국회's 22 impeachment
Featured Breaking News 10 April 2024 Breaking News Analysis: Liberals Win Legislative Supermajority in the General Election The defeat makes Yoon Suk-yeol 윤석열 the first South Korean president to spend his entire five-year term in the legislative minority.
Featured Breaking News 10 April 2024 Breaking News: Exit Polls Show Overwhelming Liberal Victory for the General Election The Democratic Party and the liberal bloc are headed to the 200-seat supermajority.
Featured Breaking News 1 January 2024 Breaking News: Lee Jae-myung Stabbed in Busan Former presidential candidate against Yoon Suk-yeol was stabbed in the neck.
Featured Breaking News 11 October 2023 Breaking News: Democratic Party Scores a Thumping Victory in the Gangseo-gu District By-Election The by-election is seen as the preview for the upcoming Assembly Election.
Featured Breaking News 29 October 2022 Breaking News: Stampede at Itaewon Halloween Party Causes At Least 120 Deaths The disaster is the largest crushing death incident in South Korean history.
Featured Breaking News 1 June 2022 Breaking News Analysis: Conservatives Sweep the Low-Turnout Local Elections The core conservative voters carried the elections held just three months after the presidential election.
Featured Breaking News 9 March 2022 Breaking News: Yun Seok-yeol Likely to Win the Presidential Election The lead is less than one percent.
Featured Breaking News 2 March 2022 Breaking News Analysis: Yun Seok-yeol and Ahn Cheol-su Form a Unity Ticket The merger comes the day before early voting and six days before the presidential election.
Featured Breaking News 23 December 2021 Breaking News: Park Geun-hye is Pardoned Park served over four years of her 22 year sentence based on election interference and bribery.
Featured Breaking News 5 November 2021 Breaking News Analysis: Yun Seok-yeol Wins the PPP Nomination for 2022 Presidential Election The former Supreme Prosecutor fought off a furious chase from Assembly Member Hong Jun-pyo to capture the conservative nomination.
Featured Breaking News 10 October 2021 Breaking News Analysis: Lee Jae-myung Wins the Democratic Nomination for 2022 Presidential Election Gyeonggi-do Province Governor scored a convincing victory over former Prime Minister Lee Nak-yeon.
Featured Breaking News 26 July 2021 Breaking News: the Two Koreas Reconnect the Inter-Korean Hotline, Signaling the Resumption of Dialogue The resumption came on the 68th anniversary of the end of active fighting in the Korean War.
Featured Breaking News 7 April 2021 Breaking News Analysis: Conservatives Sweep the Seoul-Busan By-Elections For the first time in five years, the conservative People Power Party won a major election as they swept the mayoral by-elections of South Korea's two largest cities.
Featured Breaking News 24 November 2020 Breaking News Analysis: Ministry of Justice Suspends the Supreme Prosecutor This is the first time in South Korean history that the Justice Minister suspended the Supreme Prosecutor from duty.
