The Latest Breaking News from South Korea

Seoul, South Korea, June 10th, 2025, Chainwire

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Reclusive country’s entire internet infrastructure wasn’t showing up on monitoring systems for several hours before it started coming back slowly around midday

Former Celtic striker Hyeon-gyu Oh scored to send South Korea to the 2026 World Cup this morning.

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The new South Korean president, Lee Jae-myung, calls himself a foreign policy “pragmatist”. He says he is driven by South Korea’s national interest, rather than ideology, and has spoken of his desire to improve relations with China and North Korea.

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President is likely to move his office back to Blue House, which was abandoned by president Yoon Suk Yeol

Measures include automatically replacing popular South Korean words with regime-approved terms and recording screenshots of user activity for officials to review.

Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung has won South Korea’s snap presidential election with a clear lead. With all of the ballots counted, Lee won almost 50% of the vote, ahead of his conservative rival Kim Moon-soo on 41%. He takes over a country that is deeply divided along gender lines.