At least 28 dead in South Korea plane crash
Evan Barringer was 14 years old when he stumbled onto Full House, a South Korea romcom where two strangers are forced to share a house.Sitting in his house in Memphis, he hit play assuming it was an Asian remake of a beloved American sitcom from the 1980s.
A South Korean passenger plane has veered off the runway and crashed at an airport in the southwestern city of Muan, killing at least 28 people, according to the Yonhap news agency. The accident took place on Sunday when the Jeju Air plane was landing at ...
A deepening political crisis in South Korea has not diminished the military readiness of 28,500 troops stationed in the Asian state, a U.S. official said on Friday, but Washington is closely monitoring the situation.
By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's leadership crisis will play out in the Constitutional Court, which will decide the fate of President Yoon Suk Yeol and Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, both impeached and suspended from power over a short-lived martial law.
The country has passed the U.N. threshold of a "super-aged society," with one in five of the population now aged over 65.
Han has been the caretaker leader after President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached by the assembly over his short-lived imposition of martial law earlier this month.
South Korea's main opposition party introduced a bill to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo on Thursday, a day before it plans to seek a vote on the move, which could deepen a constitutional crisis triggered by a short-lived martial law.
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South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has voted to impeach the country’s acting leader Han Duck-soo. The assembly approved the impeachment motion in a 192-0 vote. Han’s impeachment further deepens South Korea’s political crisis and damages its international image.
President Yoon Suk Yeol Yoon imposed martial law in the middle of the night earlier this month, plunging South Korea into its worst political crisis in decades.
South Korea’s business confidence deteriorated the most since the global outbreak of Covid-19, reflecting mounting concerns about an economy grappling with political turmoil and facing Donald Trump’s tariff threats.