Seoul: South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk-Yol was arrested by the police from his residence on Wednesday. Yol is under criminal investigation for imposing martial law in the country on 3 December 2024. The decision of Martial Law (Emergency) was overturned by the country’s Parliament after just 3 hours. After this, on 14 December, Yol.
Seoul: For the first time since 2010, the number of South Korean workers taking parental leave decreased in 2023, reflecting a broader trend of declining marriages and childbirths. According to Statistics Korea, 195,986 workers utilized parental leave last year, a 3% drop from the previous year, marking the first annual decline in this data series..
Seoul, Dec 14: The National Assembly South Korea’s on Saturday voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over his botched imposition of martial law. Yoon will be suspended from his duties as soon as the impeachment resolution is delivered to his office, while Prime Minister Han Duck-soo will serve as acting president. An impeachment motion.
The DP's move comes after a motion to impeach Yoon was scrapped last Saturday due to a lack of quorum as nearly all lawmakers from Yoon's ruling People Power Party boycotted the vote
Seoul: South Korean prosecutors are investigating allegations of treason related to President Yoon Suk Yeol’s brief declaration of martial law last week, prompting them to question Army Chief of Staff Gen. Park An-su, who was appointed to lead the martial law command. According to officials, Park was interrogated as a witness for about eight hours.
Seoul: Train and subway services in South Korea faced delays and cancellations on Thursday as unionized employees of the national railway operator initiated an indefinite general strike. Subway Lines 1, 3, and 4 in the Seoul area, along with KTX high-speed trains and regular services, experienced interruptions as Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL) workers demanded higher.
Seoul: South Korea’s military on Monday condemned North Korea for “crossing the line” with its continued sending of trash-carrying balloons to the South and warned that all responsibility lies with the North. “North Korea’s actions are crossing the line. We once again sternly warn that all responsibility for situations to follow lies within the North,”.
Seoul: Kim Yo-jong, the influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, warned on Sunday that South Korea would face serious consequences for sending propaganda leaflets across the border a day earlier. As the vice department director of the ruling Workers’ Party, she criticized South Korea for dropping “various kinds of political agitation leaflets and.
Seoul: Some medical professors vowed on Saturday to boycott training programs for junior doctors in protest of the government’s push for accepting the resignations of striking trainees and the medical school admission quota hikes. Professors of the radiology department at Catholic University of Korea said in a statement that they will not take part in.
Since late May, North Korea has sent more than 2,000 trash-filled balloons into the South, in a tit-for-tat move against anti-Pyongyang leaflets sent by North Korean defectors in the South.
