South Korea’s main opposition leader was indicted on Wednesday on bribery charges in an alleged scheme to use an underwear maker to transfer funds to North Korea and facilitate a …
Hopes were high on Monday that Yoon’s first meeting with opposition leader Lee Jae-myung would bring a measure of stability to the country’s turbulent politics, but the encounter only underscored …
South Korea is investigating a pastor for allegedly stalking first lady Kim Keon-hee and gifting her a Dior handbag that later snowballed into a scandal and roiled President Yoon Suk-yeol’s …
The request comes ahead of planned inquiries by the opposition-controlled National Assembly into potential abuses of power and corruption within the Yoon administration. Lee’s Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) won …
“We can simply say xie xie (thank you) to both [mainland] China and Taiwan … Why should we intervene in the Taiwan Strait issue?”, Lee said on Friday while campaigning …
“This incident vividly exemplifies the pervasive erosion of trust in politicians and an alarming decline in public respect for them”, he told This Week in Asia, referring to last week’s …
Police investigators who interviewed the middle-schooler suspect in the presence of his parents sent him to a hospital early on Friday, where they plan to continue investigating him, said Cheon …
A South Korean ruling party lawmaker was struck on the head with a rock on a street in Seoul’s upscale Gangnam district on Thursday by an unidentified assailant, Yonhap news …
Lee, chair of the Democratic Party, was stabbed in the neck in a near-fatal attack on January 2 in southern Busan city by a man who pushed through a crowd …
South Korea’s opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung remained hospitalised in intensive care on Wednesday, a day after a knife attack on him shocked political leaders who were vying for …