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President Yoon, PPP chief Han meet over lunch in apparent bid to thaw relations

People Power Party (PPP) interim leader Han Dong-hoon and President Yoon Suk Yeol met over lunch at the presidential office in Seoul on Monday in an apparent attempt to amend relations frayed over the first lady...

2024-01-29

Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk gets two years in prison

Cho Kuk, former justice minister and a close confidant to ex-President Moon Jae-in, was sentenced to two years in prison Friday after a local court found him guilty of pulling strings for his children’s college admissions.

2023-02-03

Yoon warns Kim against trying 7th nuclear test

President Yoon Suk-yeol said North Korea will face a response "not been seen before" if it carries out a new nuclear test and urged China to persuade Pyongyang to denuclearize – or face an influx of military assets to the region.

2022-11-29

Suh Hoon questioned about 2020 murder at sea

Former President Moon Jae-in’s national security adviser was summoned for questioning Thursday about allegations that he ordered the deletion of evidence in the murder of a South Korean fisheries official by North Korean soldiers in 2020.

2022-11-24

Detention sought for Lee Jae-myung's 'right-hand man'

Prosecutors on Wednesday filed for a pre-trial detention warrant for Jeong Jin-sang, vice chief of staff to Democratic Party (DP) Chairman Lee Jae-myung, on bribery and corruption charges linked to a real estate development scandal.

2022-11-16

Jokes aside, cartoonist Plantu draws new perspectives

More surprising than the fact that a teenager’s satirical caricature of President Yoon Suk-yeol recently went viral in Korea is that there were no further reports done on what the teenager was really thinking in the first place, said Le Monde’s...

2022-10-26

Rival rallies march through Seoul after arrest of aide to DP chief

Tens of thousands of protesters from both sides of the political aisle marched through central Seoul on Saturday, venting their frustration over a range of issues involving the former and current administrations.

2022-10-23

DP says corruption probe is pure political payback

Democratic Party (DP) Chairman Lee Jae-myung denied receiving any illegal funds for his failed 2022 presidential campaign on Thursday in his first public remarks about the prosecution’s arrest of a former aide.

2022-10-20

North flies warplanes, fires artillery shots, launches short-range ballistic missile

North Korea flew warplanes close to the inter-Korean border, fired artillery shots into maritime buffer zones off its coasts in violation of a South-North military agreement and launched another ballistic missile — all in less than five hours.

2022-10-14

Local government leaders discuss the world in Daejeon

President Yoon Suk-yeol called on leaders of local and regional governments around the world to come together to fight global challenges like the pandemic and climate change.

2022-10-12