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Recording of flight data ceased four minutes before Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people, says transport ministryFlight data and cockpit voice recorders on the Jeju Air plane that crashed in South Korea in December, killing 179 people, stopped recordi…
Yoon Suk Yeol is barricaded inside a compound protected by rolls of barbed wire, a blockade of buses and hundreds of security force membersRolls of barbed wire encircle the perimeter of South Korea’s presidential residence, where impeached leader Yoon …
Attitudes to North Korea are key to understanding President Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempt to impose martial law and its aftermathAs South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol remains barricaded in his residence facing arrest, his descent from star prosecutor to is…
Request comes after attempts to detain Yoon Suk Yeol were thwarted by presidential security service guards last weekSouth Korea’s investigating authorities have requested an extension of a warrant to arrest the country’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Y…
South Koreans for and against impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol rallied on adjacent streets in the Hannam-dong neighbourhood of Seoul on 4 January, just streets away from his official presidential residence. South Korean investigators again asked the c…
Crowds gather outside South Korean presidential residence where suspended leader is protected by security officersThousands of rival South Korean protesters have rallied in the capital a day after a failed attempt to arrest the country’s suspended pres…
The 179 people who died were aged between three and 78 and came from South Korea and ThailandThe 181 people who boarded Jeju Air flight 7C2216 in Bangkok on Sunday were no different from the millions who fly on commercial aircraft every day: children o…
A large fire has engulfed an eight-storey building in the city of Seongnam. Video footage taken at the scene shows flames enveloping the lower floors of the building. There have been no confirmed casualties, YTN television reports. Seongnam is South Ko…
South Korea’s political crisis deepened on Friday when investigators were forced to abandon an attempt to arrest the impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, after a tense standoff with his security forces. Hours after they entered the presidential compound…
Yoon Suk Yeoul has vowed to ‘fight to the end’ as he resists attempts to hold him accountable amid political crisisSouth Korean anti-corruption officials attempting to arrest the country’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, must know by now what he me…
The prominence of the US flag at conservative rallies reflects a complex intersection of religion, politics and identity that defines South Korea’s far-right movementLive updates: investigators attempt to arrest YoonFull report: standoff at presidentia…
Anti-corruption officials say they faced human wall of 200 presidential personnel at his official residenceInvestigators abandon attempt to arrest South Korean presidentInsurrection is one of the few criminal charges from which a South Korean president…
Officials entered the presidential compound to find themselves blocked by troops under the control of the presidential security serviceSouth Korea investigators barred from entering Yoon residence – latest updatesSouth Korea’s political crisis took a d…
Yoon issues letter to supporters as he faces arrest over declaration of martial law and alleged insurrectionSouth Korea’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has rallied his supporters in a letter saying he will “fight until the end” as he faces an att…
Pressure builds on authorities to establish cause of crash which killed 179 peoplePolice in South Korea have raided Muan international airport, the scene of Sunday’s plane crash, in which 179 people died, as well as the office of the airline that opera…