South Korea

With debate surrounding a martial law declaration in South Korea this week, many are wondering what does such a declaration actually mean and what are the rules around it?

South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law Tuesday night in an unannounced TV address.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said early Wednesday that he would soon lift the military rule he imposed overnight, after the parliament voted to reject his martial law declaration.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “got out his golf clubs for the first time in eight years and resumed his golf practice” as he gets ready to meet President-elect Donald Trump in person, his office told NBC News on Monday.

4B is a feminist movement that is believed to have originated in South Korea which calls for women to not date, marry, have sex with, or have children with men.

An 81-year-old South Korean fashion model fell short in her bid to become the oldest Miss Universe contestant.

Yooree Kim marched into a police station in Paris and told an officer she wanted to report a crime. Forty years ago, she said, she was kidnapped from the other side of the world, and the French government endorsed it.

South Korean officials said that providing Samsung smartphones to North Korean athletes at the Paris Olympics would violate U.N. Security Council sanctions against the country over its nuclear and missile program.

A U.S. Air Force pilot safely ejected from an F-16 fighter jet that crashed into waters off South Korea’s southwestern coast on Wednesday, in the second such crash in less than two months.

Some angry dog farmers said they plan to challenge the bill’s constitutionality and hold protest rallies, a sign of continued heated debate over the ban.

South Korea says North Korea has conducted artillery drills along the rivals’ tense sea boundary in violation of ar 2018 military agreement.

The injury to the chairman of South Korea’s Democratic Party was non-life-threatening, authorities said.

Police say an industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea.

The wastewater discharges, which are expected to continue for decades, have been strongly opposed by fishing groups and neighboring countries including South Korea.

North Korea has called South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol “a guy with a trash-like brain” and “a diplomatic idiot” as it blasted him for using a U.N. speech to issue a warning over the North’s deepening military ties with Russia.

Suga became the third member of K-pop supergroup BTS to begin fulfilling mandatory military duty in South Korea.

American prisoners freed from Iran arrive in the US

The victim, according to arrest warrants, was starved and beaten for weeks before she eventually died. Her identity has not been released.

South Korea has expressed “deep concern and regret” over a meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Japan began releasing more than 1 million metric tons of radioactive water into the ocean on Thursday as part of its plan to decommission the Fukushima nuclear power plant.