Investigators say they have found evidence of a bird strike on a passenger plane that crashed in South Korea in December and killed 179 people.
The feathers and blood stains on both engines of the Jeju Air plane were from the Baikal teal, a type of (...)
South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has been charged with insurrection after he attempted to declare martial law in December.
His ill-fated attempt to impose military rule plunged the country into an unprecedented political crisis and he (...)
North Korea conducted a test of a strategic cruise missile, state media KCNA reported Sunday, marking the country's first missile test since the return of Donald Trump to the White House earlier this week.
According to the report, the test was (...)
South Korean prosecutors filed a new request on Saturday to extend the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, local media reported.
According to Yonhap News Agency, the request follows a court decision on Friday rejecting an earlier bid to (...)
South Korea's suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol has made his first appearance at his impeachment trial, where he denied ordering the arrest of lawmakers during his attempt to impose martial law.
Parliament voted to impeach Yoon last month, and last (...)
South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol has again refused to appear before investigators for questioning after being formally arrested over the failed imposition of martial law last month, his lawyer said on Sunday.
Yoon's lawyer, Yun (...)
South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in court Saturday to contest a request by investigators to extend his detention and to defend the legitimacy of his controversial martial law decree in December.
The Seoul Western District (...)
Lawyers for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol failed in their court effort to secure his release on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.
Yoon was detained on Wednesday at his residence for questioning over rebellion allegations (...)
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested for questioning, according to the country's anti corruption agency, in the latest chapter of a weekslong political saga that began with the embattled president's shock martial law decree last (...)
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's fate remains in the balance after the suspended leader failed to appear at the first day of his impeachment trial Tuesday following weeks of evading arrest, delaying what is set to be a dramatic political (...)
The chart-topping K-pop band NewJeans may be prevented from signing advertising deals and other contracts after their record label filed an injunction against them.
The five-piece are currently engaged in a fierce dispute with Ador, the (...)
South Korea's suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol will receive his annual pay rise despite his impeachment for briefly placing the country under martial law, the government has said.
Yoon's salary will increase by 3% to 262.6 million won ($179,000; (...)
North Korea has claimed it fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead which "will reliably contain any rivals in the Pacific region".
The launch on Monday — Pyongyang's first in two months — came as US (...)
North Korea has fired what appears to be an intermediate-range ballistic missile towards the sea to its east, South Korea's military said, in what is Pyongyang's first missile launch in two months.
The missile flew 1,100km before falling into the (...)
South Korea's anti-corruption agency has requested that police take over efforts to detain impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol after its investigators failed to bring him into custody following a standoff with the presidential security service last (...)
A South Korean court on Sunday dismissed objections from President Yoon Suk Yeol's legal team to an arrest warrant issued against him, local media reported.
The Seoul Western District Court rejected the appeal, which sought to suspend the warrant (...)
South Korean authorities have entered the compound of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol's official residence in Seoul to execute an arrest warrant over his short-lived imposition of martial law.
Investigators had to force their way through crowds of (...)
The damaged flight data recorder from the Jeju Air passenger jet that crash-landed in South Korea will be sent to the United States for analysis, Seoul's transport ministry said Wednesday, as bereaved families began visiting the crash site.
The (...)
A Seoul court has issued an arrest warrant against South Korea's suspended president Yoon Suk Yeol over his attempt to impose martial law on 3 December.
The warrant comes after Yoon, who is being investigated for abusing his power and inciting an (...)
The sounds of sobbing, prayers and anguish echoed through the departures hall of an airport in southwestern South Korea on Monday as families of the victims killed when a passenger jet crash-landed over the weekend waited for their loved ones to be (...)
South Korean investigators have requested a court warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol over allegations of rebellion and abuse of power linked to his short-lived martial law decree on 3 December.
Yoon's lawyer has challenged the (...)
South Korea's acting leader has ordered an emergency safety inspection of the country's entire airline operations, a day after 179 people were killed in the deadliest plane crash on its soil.
The Jeju Air plane burst into flames as it crash-landed (...)
A Jeju Air passenger plane burst into flames on Sunday after skidding off the runway at Muan Airport in South Korea, crashing into a concrete wall.
The accident, caused by an apparent failure of the front landing gear to deploy, claimed 177 lives (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to implement the "toughest" anti-U.S. measures, state media reported Sunday, just weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House as U.S. president.
Kim's remarks, made during a five-day plenary (...)
South Korea has voted to impeach its acting president Han Duck-soo, two weeks after parliament voted to impeach its President Yoon Suk Yeol.
A total of 192 lawmakers voted for his impeachment, more than the 151 votes needed for it to succeed.
Prime (...)
