The National Assembly was found to be installing commemorative structures, including markers at the site where Speaker Woo Won-shik scaled the fence and symbols of martial law termination, across the parliamentary complex on the first anniversary of the December 3 emergency martial law,

The Big Ideas: What Is History? In South Korea, the collective memory of a pro-democracy uprising inspires a new generation to resist authoritarianism. By Hwang Sok-Yong Hwang Sok-Yong is a South Korean author. This personal reflection is part of a series ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Shuttled around Seoul in a prison transport vehicle, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in two different courts on Thursday, contesting his arrest on rebellion charges in one and fighting an effort to remove him from ...

Juan Ponce Enrile, the Philippine defense chief during a martial-law era notorious for human rights atrocities, democratic setbacks and plunder who later broke off from dictator Ferdinand Marcos in a schism that eventually led to the latter’s overthrow in a 1986 “people power” uprising,

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Four months after his release, South Korea’s disgraced former President Yoon Suk Yeol was sent back to a detention center after a Seoul court issued a warrant for his arrest Thursday. Yoon’s brief, ill-fated imposition of ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was ousted by the Constitutional Court on Friday, which upheld parliament's impeachment motion over his short-lived imposition of martial law last year that sparked the country's worst ...

The accusation comes out of an investigation into the Presidential Security Services prevented prosecutors from arresting the President of South Korea. Reading time 2 minutes Prosecutors in South Korea have accused a Presidential bodyguard of asking ...