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By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's leadership crisis will play out in the Constitutional Court, which will decide ...

The vote was the second major impeachment in two weeks after President Yoon’s ill-fated martial law bid set off turmoil. The ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Police faced off with security ... says that once he resigns, a presidential by-election could be held by the spring. But the liberal opposition Democratic Party and much ...

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling ...

The plane crash is the first major test for South Korea’s acting president, Choi Sang-mok, who was appointed the interim ...

I do not know the first thing about the Constitution of South Korea. But this report from the New York Times reads like an exam fact pattern. First, the ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s main opposition party submitted a motion on Thursday to impeach the country’s acting ...

After South Korea's president and his replacement were both deposed over a failed bid to impose martial law, deepening ...

The South Korean Parliament voted to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo, temporarily stripping him of power less than two ...

In November, the world’s most powerful democracy elected as its next president a man who schemed to overturn its last presidential election. A month later, South Koreans swarmed their legislature to ...

Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s since-impeached president, had been planning for months to impose martial law and target political opponents, according to accounts.