KELLY is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Pusan National University. With democracies around the world under duress, South Korea seems to stand out as an example of resilience.

South Korean President Yoon's recent declaration of martial law highlights the nation's political disfunction. Dr. Yul Sohn ...

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This crisis was touched off on Dec. 3 when Yoon formally declared, and attempted to impose, martial law amid political ...

The impeached, jailed president, who had been holed up in his presidential compound for weeks after issuing a shocking martial law decree last month, now faces rebellion charges that are punishable by ...

After a days-long standoff between his security detail ... becoming the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested. Yoon, a former prosecutor himself, has been held in solitary ...

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's term in office has been dogged by personal scandals, an unyielding opposition and rifts within his own party, and a rapid fall from grace over his short-lived ...

SEOUL >> South Korea’s prosecutors indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol today on charges of leading an insurrection ...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's prosecutors indicted impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday on charges of leading an ...

Hours after South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was formally arrested, triggering rioting by his supporters, his lawyers said Sunday that he remains defiant in his refusal to answer ...