A pro-Yoon Suk Yeol figure, Rep. Kweon Seong-dong, was elected as the new floor leader of the People Power Party on Thursday. Assuming the role, the five-term lawmaker said he plans to convene a general meeting of party lawmakers to "collect opinions" following President Yoon's latest address Thursday morning, where he defended his decision to declare martial law last week. The party's stance at...

Cho Kuk, the leader of the minor opposition Rebuilding Korea Party, was sentenced to two years in prison by the Supreme Court on Thursday on charges including fabrication of official documents and interference in a state audit of a high-ranking Busan city official. The two-year prison term will cause the 59-year-old to immediately lose his seat in the National Assembly along with his eligibility...

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Ruling People Power Party Chair Han Dong-hoon said Thursday that it "has been confirmed" that President Yoon Suk Yeol is not willing to participate in the party's plan for his orderly resignation, and stressed that impeachment is the "only valid way" to stop him from exercising his powers as president. Han's remarks, made at a press briefing, follow Yoon's public address on Saturday, in which he...

Han Kang, this year's laureate of the Nobel Prize in literature, hopes her novel "Human Acts" will be an access road to understanding the May 18, 1980, pro-democracy people's uprising in Gwangju to many people. "I was all the more cautious since this novel depicts a real incident," the South Korean author said during a meeting with Korean reporters at a publishing house in Stockholm on Wednesday...

In his address, Yoon repeatedly accused the opposition parties of "abusing power" in that they had brought forward a series of "unconstitutional measures" that made it too difficult for him to sit by and watch. Yoon also contended that his use of executive power was within the constitutional framework. "The current state of national paralysis, caused by social unrest and the collapse of adminis...

Seoul shares opened higher Thursday, tracking overnight gains of US blue chip tech shares backed by US Consumer Price Index data, which cemented bets for another rate cut by the Federal Reserve. The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index added 20.41 points, or 0.84 percent, to 2,462.92 in the first 15 minutes of trading. Overnight, the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite and the S&P 500 gained gro...

The National Assembly is set to open a plenary session Thursday to vote on a special counsel bill to investigate whether President Yoon Suk Yeol committed insurrection and other violations over his short-lived declaration of martial law last week. The Assembly will also vote on a bill mandating a special counsel probe into two key allegations involving first lady Kim Keon Hee -- her alleged invo...

North Korea's state media reported on the martial law turmoil in South Korea for a second consecutive day Thursday, saying political chaos is escalating amid calls to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol. The Korean Central News Agency and the Rodong Sinmun newspaper, which caters to the general North Korean readership, published the same article saying, "Voices of protest demanding the impeachment o...

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Han Kang, one of the renowned Korean writers, finally received the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature medal. Not only the writer herself but also all Koreans welcome and honor her. In her special lecture to commemorate the award, she shared some essential questions that left strong impressions on us. Why is the world so violent and painful? At the same time, why is the world so beautiful? If nothi...

These days, those of us old enough to remember our history might be forgiven for having a terrible feeling of deja vu. The last time martial law terrified the South Korean people was in 1980, when General Chun Doo-hwan seized power through Korea’s second military coup and crushed the resisting people ruthlessly. Those of us who are over 50 now vividly remember those nightmare days when curfew was...

Last Monday night, with a blanket, popcorn and old throw pillows on our laps, my wife Jakyung and I settled into our shared evening couch routine of getting work done on the laptops while re-binging “Emily in Paris” on Netflix for fun and mindless background diversion. My task for that evening was to begin something I hadn’t done since 2018 -- write an op-ed for The Korea Herald. I have been int...