Cho Ji-ho, the commissioner-general of the Korean National Police Agency, and Kim Bong-sik, the head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, have been held since the previous day under emergency ...

The special prosecution team handling the probe called Cho in for questioning over his alleged involvement in Yoon's martial law declaration, including his attendance at a Cabinet meeting where the ...

SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Yonhap) -- With her first several international races in the books following a sabbatical, South Korean short tracker Choi Min-jeong has learned that she could still go up against the ...

SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Yonhap) -- Han Kang, this year's laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature, hopes her novel "Human Acts" will be an access road to understanding the May 18, 1980, pro-democracy ...

Ex-defense minister attempts suicide at detention facility ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (Yonhap) -- The House of Representatives passed an annual defense policy bill Wednesday that calls for maintaining 28,500 American troops in South Korea and reaffirming the United ...

SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Yonhap) -- The National Assembly is set to open a plenary session Thursday to vote on a special counsel bill to investigate whether President Yoon Suk Yeol committed insurrection and ...

SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's state media reported on the martial law turmoil in South Korea for a second consecutive day Thursday, saying political chaos is escalating amid calls to ...

SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Yonhap) -- Prague does "not anticipate" any delays in finalizing negotiations with South Korea's nuclear ...

SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Yonhap) -- South Korea has an advantage in strengthening ties with the Global South, including Africa, given ...

Radicals have gained the upper hand within the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea (DP) while the nation is in political turmoil following President Yoon Suk Yeol's surprise declaration of ...