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Vote comes almost two weeks after Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived declaration of martial law plunged country into crisis

Kim Yong-hyun, who resigned earlier this week, is seen as central to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief martial law declaration

A push to impeach South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol fell through on Saturday following a boycott of the vote by the conservative governing party.

Police have clashed with protesters in South Korea as the country’s parliament votes against the president’s move to declare an "emergency martial law".

President Yoon Suk Yeol met with a Ukrainian delegation as the North Korean troop deployment threatens to expand the war.

Seoul reported that it believed North Korea would blow the roads up on Monday to severe connections between the two, a prediction that came to pass when the North detonated on Tuesday

Behind the head of the National Agency for Prospective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP) Dmitriy Lee stands Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov.

Concerns have been raised after the world’s largest economy reported much lower-than-expected job creation in July.

The South Korean company YG-1 has been confirmed as a supplier of metal-cutting equipment to Russia, which is actively being utilized by Russian defense manufacturers.

At the outset of Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv found it difficult to seek military assistance from third countries.

A high-profile North Korean diplomat stationed in Cuba has defected to the South, Seoul’s spy agency has confirmed to the BBC.

Thaksin appears in court accused of lese-majeste relating to 2015 interview with South Korean media

A labor union at Samsung Electronics in South Korea said many workers went on strike Friday, marking the first such walkout in the smartphone and chipmaking giant’s 55-year history.

Kim Jong-un is trying to quash Western influence from his closed-off nation, with sources claiming two new draconian laws have been brought in to make lives more difficult

Fresh research shows that Covid-19 infections are associated with an increased risk for autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases (AIRDs) including arthritis, gout, and lupus

Booyoung Group has designed the scheme in a bid to try to help reverse South Korea’s declining birth rate - and the company is even backdating payments to those who started a family before the policy came into place

The dark and violent crime series has been hailed as '100 percent insane but 100 percent amazing'

The unnamed woman slammed onto the solid floor, missing an emergency crash mat at the foot of the jump after the safety harness attaching her to the elastic bungee rope failed

After they are deep fried, the toothpicks made of sweet potato or corn starch look like jade-coloured, skinny curly fries video clips show them being cooked in oil and covered in seasoning

Nearly one in six Brits have picked up Korean ingredients from the supermarket - with Korean fried chicken named as the dish they are most likely to have tried

As the T'way Air flight 216 took off from Incheon International Airport in South Korea, headed for Japan, a bird flew into its starboard engine leading to alarming scenes as fire spurted from the jet

Lee Jae-myung, the tough-talking leader of South Korea's main opposition party, was set upon by a knife-wielding man in Busan today before collapsing to the ground

Parasite actor Lee Sun-kyun died at the age of 48 after being found unconscious in a car in a park in the South Korean capital of Seoul, with police now investigating his death

Tributes have been pouring in for Lee Sun-kyun, best known to many for his role in Bong Joon-ho’s 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite, following the actor's apparent suicide

Actor Lee Sun-kyun, 48, of South Korea, who starred in 2019's Oscar-winning Parasite, was found dead amid drug-abuse allegations - although he claimed he was being blackmailed