Candle-lit vigils and rallies were held across South Korea on Wednesday, a nation outraged and frustrated by the president’s ...

By Hyonhee Shin, Cynthia Kim, Ju-min Park and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) -At his confirmation hearing three months ago, ...

At his confirmation hearing three months ago, South Korea's defence minister Kim Yong-hyun rejected accusations from the ...

Within the span of a chaotic six hours, South Korea saw its president declare emergency martial law, be denounced by his own ...

The opposition-controlled parliament overturned the the martial law edict, and his rivals on Wednesday took steps to impeach ...

In the uncertain hours early Wednesday, many recalled the nation’s last martial law, which came after a coup installed a ...

Last year, a political blockbuster gripped South Korea with a dramatization of a painful memory from its authoritarian past, ...

Martial law was first used in 1948 by South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee as he cracked down on communist uprisings, ...

President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law, then backed off, in a matter of hours. He now faces impeachment and mass ...

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol faced parliamentary moves to impeach him after he sent heavily armed forces into ...

During South Korea's decades under autocratic governments and military rule, martial law was a common response to political ...