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1.Acting President Han Duck-soo on Tuesday urged the National Assembly to produce a solution regarding two special counsel bills targeting Yoon Suk Yeol and Kim Keon-hee as well as the appointments of three justices to the Constitutional Court. 2.According to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety on Tuesday, South Korea has formally become a "super-aged" society, as the share of its population a...

1.The Constitutional Court said Monday it will hold the first preparatory hearing in Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment trial on Friday as planned. The Court said Yoon will be considered to have been served the necessary documents regardless of whether he received them, as they were delivered by the postal service last Friday. 2.South Korea's first vice foreign minister Kim Hong-kyun, who is visiting the...

1.A spokesperson for the Constitutional Court said Thursday that documents the Court had sent to President Yoon Suk Yeol regarding his impeachment trial were returned and refused for the third time. The court will announce next Monday how the failed document deliveries would reflect in the trial proceedings and consider alternatives. 2.The South Korean currency stayed near its lowest level in more...

1.The South Korean won weakened past one-thousand-450 won against the U.S. dollar on Thursday, reaching its lowest point in 15 years. The local currency opened at one-thousand-453 won per dollar, following a U.S. rate cut made the previous day. 2.During an extraordinary Cabinet meeting on Thursday, Acting President Han Duck-soo vetoed six contentious bills, marking his first use of presidential po...

1.The Supreme Prosecutors Office said Wednesday the prosecution has decided to transfer its martial law-related investigation into President Yoon Suk Yeol and former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min to the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, amid concerns that multiple agencies handling the same case could lead to overlap issues. 2.The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol’s legal defense team said Tuesday that Yoon will state his position in court if a public hearing is held in his impeachment trial, and that the president believes he is innocent of the crime of insurrection. 2.The ruling and main opposition parties remained at odds Tuesday over whether to fill in three vacancies of the nine-member Constitutional Court that will handle Pre...

1.The National Assembly on Saturday passed an impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3rd, suspending his presidential powers as of 7:24 PM. The motion passed 204-85, with three abstentions and eight invalid ballots. 2.The Constitutional Court said it will hold its first meeting of its justices on Monday to review the parliament...

1.The Ministry of Economy and Finance said Friday in its monthly economic report, the Green Book, that the South Korean economy faces "downside risks" due to uncertainties at home and abroad despite signs of stabilizing inflation. 2. A court decision on the formal arrest of Cho Ji-ho, the commissioner-general of the Korean National Police Agency, and Kim Bong-sik, the head of the Seoul Metropolita...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday defended his botched martial law declaration as an act of governance and denied insurrection charges facing him, while vowing to fight until the last moment against whether it is impeachment or a martial law probe. 2. Six opposition parties on Thursday submitted a second impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk Yeol over his botched martial law declaratio...

1.South Korean novelist Han Kang has made history as the first South Korean and first Asian woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Han received a diploma and a Nobel medal on Tuesday at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. 2.The Democratic Party said Wednesday they plan to submit a second impeachment bill against President Yoon Suk Yeol on December 12th, citing the delay to ongoing reve...

1.The Seoul Central District Court is set to convene a hearing to review whether to arrest former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun on charges of colluding with President Yoon Suk Yeol to commit insurrection. The result is expected to come out as early as late Tuesday. 2.The National Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill mandating a permanent special counsel to investigate treason charges against Preside...

1.A motion to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived attempt to impose martial law was scrapped Saturday due to a lack of quorum, raising uncertainties about South Korea’s political future. 2.Leader of the ruling People Power Party Han Dong-hoon vowed to work toward an "orderly retreat" of President Yoon Suk Yeol following a failed impeachment motion against him. National Assembly Sp...

1.Leader of the ruling People Power Party Han Dong-hoon said Friday that President Yoon Suk Yeol's duties should be promptly suspended, revealing that Yoon ordered the arrests of politicians during his aborted martial law declaration. Han added that the president might take drastic action again if he stays in office. 2.U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday welcomed the lifting of mart...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday accepted the resignation of Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun, who had proposed the martial law declaration to Yoon. Yoon has nominated Choi Byung-hyuk, a retired four-star Army general currently serving as the ambassador to Saudi Arabia, to succeed Kim. 2.The Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday that the comprehensive strategic partnership treaty between...

1.South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Wednesday he would lift a martial law declaration he had imposed just six hours before, backing down after 190 lawmakers present in the National Assembly unanimously passed a motion to reject the decree. 2.The main opposition Democratic Party and five other minor opposition parties submitted a motion to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday aft...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol and Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov have agreed to elevate bilateral relations between the two countries and form a comprehensive partnership, after a summit at the presidential office on Tuesday. 2.According to data released by Statistics Korea on Tuesday, South Korea's consumer price index stood at 114-point-four last month, up one-point-five percent from a year earlier...

1.National Assembly speaker Woo Won-shik on Monday decided to put an opposition-led downsized budget bill for next year on hold, urging the ruling and opposition parties to reach an agreement by next week. 2.The Korea Central News Agency reported Saturday that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un met Russia’s visiting defense minister and expressed his support for Russia’s war in Ukraine. 3.According t...

1.The European Union announced Thursday that it has given the final approval for a 1.8 trillion-won, or roughly 1-point-4 billion U.S. dollar, merger deal between Korean Air and Asiana Airlines. 2.The Korean Medical Association on Thursday urged members of the consultative body on the doctors’ walkout to withdraw from talks, after People Power Party leader Han Dong-hoon supported establishing new...

1.The Korea Meteorological Administration said Thursday that 28-point-6 centimeters of snow blanketed Seoul as of 8 a.m. at the official weather observation point. This marks the third-heaviest figure from the same location in central Seoul. 2.The Bank of Korea‘s Monetary Policy Board held a meeting Thursday and cut its benchmark interest rate for the second consecutive session to three percent, r...

1.The Korea Meteorological Administration said that more than 16 centimeters of snow blanketed Seoul on Wednesday, marking the biggest November snowfall since modern weather observations began in 1907. 2.An Ukrainian delegation led by Kyiv’s Defense Minister is expected to visit Seoul and meet with President Yoon Suk Yeol as early as Wednesday. 3.A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah took effec...

1.South Korea's foreign ministry said Tuesday that Seoul has expressed regret over Japan’s attitude during bilateral consultations ahead of a memorial event for the Korean and Japanese victims of wartime forced labor at Japan’s newly UNESCO World Heritage-listed Sado mines. 2.President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday vetoed a bill calling for a special counsel investigation into corruption allegations in...

1.The South Korean government on Monday held its own ceremony in Japan to honor Korean forced labor victims of Japan’s Sado mines during World War II, after boycotting a memorial event that Japan hosted the previous day over Tokyo’s apparent insincerity in delivering its pledge to remember the victims. 2.Main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung was acquitted Monday of charges of subor...

1.The emergency committee of the Korean Medical Association on Friday called on the government to suspend the recruitment of medical school freshmen for the 2025 academic year. 2.According to the North Korea's state media said Friday, Kim Jong-un has said that his country went to every length in negotiations with the United States, but it only confirmed Washington's unwavering hostile policy towar...

1.A U.N. General Assembly committee on Wednesday passed a resolution on North Korean human rights for the 20th consecutive year, calling for the U.N. system as a whole to continue to address the North's "grave" situation "in a coordinated and unified manner." 2.The Korean Railway Workers' Union on Thursday said they will launch an indefinite general strike on December 5th to demand higher pay and...

1.President Yoon Suk Yeol wrapped up visits to Peru and Brazil on Tuesday, where he met with leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation gathering in Lima and joined the Group of 20 summit in Rio de Janeiro during the six-day trip. 2.The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that South Korea's economy is forecast to grow 2 percent next year, citing downside risks including a slowdown in...