The BBC has spoken to people close to the president to understand what drove him to trigger an authoritarian takeover.

The country’s Constitutional Court formally ended the presidency of Yoon Suk Yeol for declaring martial law, ending months of ...

Photos show daily life in remote parts of North Korea and its capital, Pyongyang. Slogans and propaganda are common sights on ...

The constitutional court unanimously voted to uphold Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment, paving the way for a snap election within ...

South Korea's Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of conservative president Yoon Suk Yeol after he declared martial ...

South Korean Buddhist monks and members of civic groups prostrate in every three steps in a march towards the Constitutional ...

The death toll includes the pilot of a firefighting helicopter that crashed in South Korea’s Uiseong county while battling ...

The unanimous verdict capped a dramatic fall for Yoon, a former star prosecutor who went from political novice to president ...

A photo recap of four months of political chaos in South Korea, from martial law to today's verdict of Yoon's impeachment and ...

Rain and cooler temperatures have brought some much-needed relief to South Korean firefighters battling the country's worst ...

With little commonality between the two factions, politics has metastasized into a winner-takes-all where, ultimately, both sides lose. Since democratization, four South Korean Presidents have been ...

It comes four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law and sending troops to ...