(Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images) As the newly elected president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye has made history by becoming the first female president of her country. The daughter of the former ...

Earlier today South Korea elected a new president, Park Geun-hye. That she is the nation's first female president would have been striking news on its own. But in Park's case, the fact that she is the ...

W HEN SOUTH KOREA’S president, Yoon Suk Yeol, sent troops streaming into the country’s National Assembly on December 3rd, Lee ...

although South Korea has not executed anyone in decades. Under South Korean law, a sitting president has immunity from most ...

LONDON -- South Korean prosecutors formally indicted President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday, charging him with insurrection over ...

One woman tried unsuccessfully to pull a rifle away from one of the soldiers, while shouting “Aren’t you embarrassed?” Under South Korea’s constitution, the president can declare martial ...

Yoon’s detention, after a tense standoff outside the presidential residence, marks the latest chapter in a bewildering series of events since his martial law decree.

Prosecutors indicted detained South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday on charges of leading an insurrection with his ...

Gathering in Uiwang, the supporters condemned the opposition party and South Korea’s judicial system for detaining Yoon Suk Yeol. Law enforcement authorities were seeking to formally arrest the ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol will stand trial along with his former defense minister and others who participated in his ...