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Seoul's Ex-Defense Chief Attempts Suicide After Arrest

Kim Yong Hyun is first official formally arrested after brief period of martial law

(Newser) - South Korea's previous defense minister was stopped from attempting suicide while in detention over last week's martial law, officials said, as police were reported to be raiding President Yoon Suk Yeol's office Wednesday in their intensifying investigation. The main liberal opposition Democratic Party also plans to submit...

South Korea's President Now Under a Travel Ban

Ban is related to Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived martial law decree

(Newser) - South Korea's Justice Ministry on Monday imposed an overseas travel ban on President Yoon Suk Yeol as authorities investigate allegations of rebellion and other charges in connection with his short-lived declaration of martial law last week, the AP reports. Yoon's martial law decree last Tuesday, which brought special...

S. Korean President Avoids Impeachment, at Least for Now

Vote scrapped after not enough ballots are cast, though opposition has chance to try again

(Newser) - South Korea's embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol avoided an opposition-led attempt to impeach him over his short-lived imposition of martial law, as most ruling party lawmakers boycotted a parliamentary vote Saturday to deny a two-thirds majority needed to suspend his presidential powers, per the AP . The Washington Post reports...

Opposition to Yoon: Resign or Be Impeached
South Korea Opposition
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South Korea Opposition Moves to Impeach

Opposition parties file motion after initially urging S. Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol to resign

(Newser) - South Korea's opposition parties submitted a motion on Wednesday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over the shocking and short-lived martial law that drew heavily armed troops to encircle parliament, before lawmakers climbed walls to reenter the building and unanimously voted to lift his order, per the AP . The...

Why South Korea's President Declared Martial Law

Yoon Suk Yeol made 'foolhardy' move after series of political setbacks

(Newser) - In one of the most momentous nights in recent South Korean history, President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law and then lifted the decree hours later after lawmakers voted unanimously to reject it. On Tuesday night, Yoon said temporary military rule was being imposed to "crush anti-state forces that...

Hours After Declaring Martial Law, Yoon Backs Down

South Korea's president lifts martial law decree

(Newser) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's government has lifted the martial law he imposed during a tense night of political drama in which troops surrounded parliament and lawmakers voted to reject military rule . Yoon said his government withdrew military personnel following a bipartisan parliamentary vote that rejected martial law,...

South Korea's President Declares Martial Law
South Korean Parliament
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South Korean Parliament Rejects Martial Law

Move comes after president made the surprise declaration

(Newser) - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday, vowing to eliminate "anti-state" forces as he struggles against an opposition that he accuses of sympathizing with communist North Korea. Hours later, the South's parliament voted to lift the declaration, with National Assembly Speaker Woo Won...

Seoul Sees Biggest November Snowfall in a Century

2 people are dead and flights are grounded

(Newser) - The biggest November snowstorm to hit South Korea's capital in more than a century came on Wednesday, grounding hundreds of flights, disrupting commuter traffic, and leaving at least two dead. South Korea's weather agency said 7.8 to 10 inches of snow fell in the northern areas of...

Man Thought He Could Eat His Way Out of Military Service

South Korean man who hoped to avoid combat intentionally made himself obese

(Newser) - A South Korean man who packed on the pounds in an effort to dodge mandatory military service will have to serve his country regardless, or face jail. The unnamed 26-year-old, who ate and ate until he was considered too obese to serve in a combat role, was convicted of trying...

Biden Praises Unity Against Growing Threat

Meeting in Peru addresses military partnership between Russia, North Korea

(Newser) - President Biden on Friday praised the cooperation among South Korea, Japan, and the US at countering what he described as North Korea's "dangerous and destabilizing cooperation with Russia." Biden spoke at the start of a meeting in Peru with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese...

K-Drama Star Song Jae-lim Found Dead
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Song Jae-lim
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K-Drama Star Song Jae-lim Found Dead

Seoul police say there was a note found in the 39-year-old's apartment

(Newser) - Song Jae-lim, a South Korean actor and former model, was found dead in Seoul on Tuesday. The 39-year-old's body was discovered in his apartment by a friend who planned to have lunch with him, CNN reports. Police in the city's Seongdong district said there was no evidence of...

South Korea: Signals From Border Disrupt Planes, Vessels

Military reports second straight day of GPS interruptions

(Newser) - South Korea's military said North Korea disrupted GPS signals from border areas for the second straight day on Saturday, affecting an unspecified number of flights and vessel operations. Tensions between the nations have escalated as North Korean leader Kim Jong Un flaunts his advancing nuclear and missile program and...

US Accuses China, Russia of Shielding North Korea

Hours later, North Korea launches more missiles

(Newser) - North Korea says it's speeding up the building of its nuclear weapons arsenal to counter threats from "hostile nuclear weapons states," like the United States. "The nuclear threat of United States against [North Korea] has already reached critical point in terms of its scale and danger,...

US Verifies What Ukraine, South Korea Have Alleged

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says North Korea has indeed sent troops to Russia

(Newser) - The US for the first time confirmed what South Korea and Ukraine have been saying: that North Korean troops have been sent to Russia. "There is evidence of DPRK troops in Russia," Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Wednesday in Rome (North Korea's formal name is the Democratic...

South Korea to Russia: Send North Korean Troops Home

Seoul summons ambassador over reports 1.5K soldiers from North are in Russia to fight

(Newser) - South Korea says it has confirmed that soldiers from North Korea have arrived in Russia—and it wants Moscow to send them home immediately. On Monday, authorities in Seoul summoned the Russian ambassador to make the demand, reports the BBC . "[This] not only gravely threatens South Korea but the...

North Korea Has to Pay Back Loan for Roads It Just Blew Up

Relations with South Korea continue to deteriorate with explosions observed Tuesday

(Newser) - In a symbolic display of anger , North Korea on Tuesday blew up the northern section of unused roads that once linked it with the South, per the AP . The roads' choreographed demolition underlines North Korea's growing anger against South Korea's conservative government. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un...

North Korea: Army Units Are Ready to Strike Across Border

Military calls South Korea's drone launches provocation

(Newser) - North Korea said Sunday its front-line army units are ready to launch strikes on South Korea, ramping up pressure on its rival that it accuses of flying drones over the capital of Pyongyang. North Korea on Friday said it would respond with force if South Korea drops propaganda leaflets over...

North Korea Severing Routes to the South

Roads and rails leading to 'principal enemy' to be cut off, army says

(Newser) - After promising to remove all mention of reunification with South Korea from its constitution, North Korea says it's eliminating all road and rail connections between the two enemy nations. Roads and railways connecting the countries will be cut off beginning Wednesday, the General Staff of the Korean People's...

'Intense Poetic Prose' Just Won Her the Literature Nobel

South Korean author Han Kang takes home top writing prize

(Newser) - The Nobel Prize in literature was awarded Thursday to South Korean author Han Kang for what the Nobel Committee called "her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Han, 53, won the International Booker Prize in 2016 for The Vegetarian, an...

This Nation Is 'Most Targeted' Over Deepfake Porn

In South Korea, women's lives have been ruined by footage; gender divide there may deepen

(Newser) - Three years after a 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online fake images that depicted her nude, she's still being treated for trauma. She struggles to talk with men, and using a mobile phone brings back the nightmare. "It completely trampled me, even though it wasn'...

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