The Latest Breaking News from Park Chunghee

Rightwing president backs down after most serious challenge to country’s democracy since 1980s

Yoon Suk Yeol says in late-night address that opposition parties have taken parliamentary process hostage

Explore the gripping narrative of '12:12 The Day,' a film depicting the political turmoil in South Korea following President Park Chung-hee's assassination...

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Plan to compensate victims of colonial-era forced labour met with protests in Seoul but hailed as ‘historic’ by the US.

South Korea’s spy agency has accused members of the country’s largest union of illegally contacting North Korean agents.

In October, the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China endorsed another five-year term for President Xi Jinping, effectively ending the practice of limiting the presidency to two terms. It was thus also an unmistakable break with the tradition of collective leadership established in the late 1970s after the…

Historical feuds over wartime abuses threaten to derail S Korea-Japan relations as N Korea steps up nuclear programme.

South Korea's president-elect Yoon Suk-yeol met with former President Park Geun-hye on Tuesday for the first time since he led a corruption probe that resulted in her impeachment and a nearly five-year prison term.

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye left hospital on Thursday three months after she was released from prison where she spent nearly five years following a conviction on corruption charges.

Former President Park Geun-hye is going home three months after being pardoned for one of South Korea’s worst government-corruption scandals