Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s since-impeached president, had been planning for months to impose martial law and target political opponents, according to accounts.

Japan’s Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya will fly to Seoul for talks with his counterpart on Monday amid an ongoing political crisis in South Korea over short-lived martial law. Iwaya will be hosted by South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul in what would be their first one-on-one meeting.

Two weeks after becoming South Korea's second acting president, Choi Sang-mok faces not only the task of steering a shaky economy and rebuilding confidence among global allies but simply staying in his job amid the worst political crisis in decades.

South Korea experienced presidential impeachments and a tragic plane crash. But the Kospi index is now higher than it was a month ago.

Mercedes Schlapp, a prominent conservative commentator and former White House official, voiced concerns on Jan. 7 about the potential geopolitical ramifications of South Korea’s ongoing political crisis.

Mr Yoon has remained defiant against efforts to detain him for a criminal investigation. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Investigators seeking to question Yoon on insurrection charges linked to his ill-fated declaration of martial law secured a new arrest warrant this week.

By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol will accept the decision of the Constitutional Court that is trying parliament's impeachment case against him, even if it decides to remove the suspended leader from office,

THE NEW AMERICAN EXPORT — The U.S. has long exported its cultural products to South Korea, flexing its soft power within the country through Hollywood products and academic exchanges. It now appears to be exporting something different — Donald Trump’s politics of defiance and norm-breaking.

South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol's attempt to hold on to power is a reminder of how much chaos leaders create when they try to thwart democracy, says Karishma Vaswani for Bloomberg Opinion.

The case, involving an inquiry into a marine’s death, had stoked political tensions long before President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment last month.