(Cover: Yoon Suk-yeol of the main opposition People Power Party gestures to his supporters as he is congratulated for winning the presidential election outside the party headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, March 10, 2022. /CFP) RELATED STORIES South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol leaves th...
South Korea's main opposition party on Wednesday urged Yoon to resign immediately or face impeachment. Yoon has not publicly responded to the opposition's demand. But his office said senior presidential advisers and secretaries for Yoon offered to resign collectively and the president also put off ...
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17, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol promised toexpand the government's support for surging defense exportsand bolster the country's nascent space industrial base.Arms exports topped $17.3 billion for South Korea in 2022,smashing the previous record of $7 billion, set a year prior. Now,...
This file photo taken on May 10, 2022 shows Yoon Suk-yeol swearing in as South Korea's president during the inaugural ceremony in the National Assembly plaza in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's parliament on Saturday failed to pass President Yoon Suk-yeol's impeachment motion as most of ...
Yoon Suk-yeol is sworn in as South Korea's president during the inaugural ceremony in the National Assembly plaza in Seoul, South Korea, May 10, 2022. (Photo by James Lee/Xinhua) SEOUL, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Yoon Suk-yeol of the biggest conservative People Power Party on Tuesday was swor...
The 2022 presidential race was Yoon’s first election campaign. Yoon beat his rival, liberal firebrand Lee Jae-myung, by less than 1 percentage point in South Korea’s most closely fought presidential election. Their campaign was one of the nastiest in recent memory. ...
Following a parliament vote to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s opposition leader urged the Constitutional Court to rule swiftly on a bid to remove him from office. But Korea Univeristy Law Professor Chang Young-soo says there is only a “50-50 chance” of Yoo...
South Korea's National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-shik bangs the gavel to pass the impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk-yeol in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 14, 2024. South Korea's parliament voted Saturday to impeach President Yoon Suk-yeol over his martial law declaration, after the firs...
“It’s also worth noting that Yoon’s foreign policy since he took office as president in 2022 has been driven by forging closer ties with the United States and Japan,” he said, the latter being “especially controversial in South Korea.” ...