President Yoon Suk Yeol’s security service stopped an effort to detain him on insurrection charges and has vowed to do so again. Its roots are in the era of military dictatorships. By Choe Sang ...

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She noted that the president ... as a personal bodyguard unit for South Korea’s former military strongmen, as a “relic of our authoritarian past”. Park Jong-joon, the chief of the ...

He’s been a part of the group since 2015, but it wasn’t until 2019 that he was appointed as the leader after ... The latter posted a picture of the two on his Instagram story in May 2024. Kim Jong-in, ...

This is a picture of the political crisis that South Korea finds itself in ... outside his residence. Park Jong-joon, who was appointed chief of the presidential security service by Yoon last ...

He’s been a part of the group since 2015, but it wasn’t until 2019 that he was appointed as the leader after ... The latter ...

A supporter of impeached South Korea President Yoon Suk Yeol holds a placard showing a picture of the president ... Former presidents Roh Moo-hyun and Park Geun-hye never appeared for their ...

Now that Kim Jong-un has sent troops to take a direct role in the fighting, South Korea could respond by ... In the 1970s, strongman Park Chung-hee secretly pursued the development of a nuclear ...

Corruption and factionalism was common within the Korean army. A hard-won path to democracy Park Chung Hee would remain South Korea’s president for 18 years ... was tortured to death for protesting.

Washington began preparing several retaliatory measures, including initiating UN sanctions and reinforcing troops in South Korea ... painting a picture of a former president going rogue.

In the late 1980s, a real-life Squid Game-like area existed in South Korea, a horrifying concentration camp not ... Why was I given an identification number?” Park Soon-hee, another victim of the case ...