•South Korea’s new president, Lee Jae South Korea aims to roll out a $17 billion “wartime” supplementary budget and expand fuel tax cuts as the war in Iran pushes up energy prices, the government said today. Officials aim to “draw up a supplementary budget worth 25 trillion won next month — funded by excess tax […]
•American troops South Korea has warned its citizens to leave Iran amid rising tensions and concerns over a possible US military strike, according to an embassy statement and local media reports today. In a safety notice on its website yesterday, the South Korean Embassy in Iran warned that the country’s security could deteriorate rapidly. It ...
•South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol A South Korean judge sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol today to five years in prison for obstructing justice and other crimes linked to his disastrous martial law declaration and in its chaotic aftermath. It is the first in a series of verdicts for the disgraced ex-leader, whose […...
•South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol (R) South Korea’s disgraced ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol was detained for a second time today over his declaration of martial law and held in a solitary cell as investigators widened their insurrection probe. Yoon plunged South Korea into a political crisis when he sought to subvert civilian rule ...
•Election officials unload a ballot box at a counting station in Seoul today Centre-left candidate Lee Jae-myung is projected to win South Korea’s presidential election by a landslide after months of political chaos, exit polls showed today, with turnout the highest in nearly three decades. Six months to the day after ex-president Yoon Suk Ye...
•A woman casts her vote at a polling station in Seoul during the presidential election today South Koreans began voting today for a new president, capping six months of political upheaval following ex-leader Yoon Suk Yeol’s disastrous declaration of martial law. A handful of elderly voters lined up at a polling station in Seoul’s Munrae-dong ...
•The logo of the Bank of Korea South Korea’s economy unexpectedly contracted 0.1 percent in the first three months of this year, the country’s central bank said today, as the Asian export giant reels from months of political chaos and heightened trade tensions. US President Donald Trump’s threatened 25 percent “reciprocal” tariffs on export-de...
•Impeached South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from detention today, our correspondents saw, walking out of the detention centre smiling before bowing deeply in front of waiting supporters. His supporters cheered as the suspended president walked past, our correspondent saw, before...
South Korean investigators say they have found evidence of a bird strike on a Jeju Air jet that crashed in December, killing 179 people. The feathers and blood stains on both engines of the Jeju Air plane were from the Baikal teal, a type of migratory duck that flies in large flocks, according to a […]
•South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol Two vehicles belonging to South Korean investigators probing impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrived outside his official residence early today as they prepared to execute a new arrest warrant. “Two CIO vehicles have arrived in front of the (presidential) residence,” Yonhap News TV reported, r...
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