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South Korean former President Moon Jae-in arrives at National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Former South Korean President Moon calls his bribery indictment ‘unjust’

Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in has called his bribery indictment “unjust” and accused prosecutors of abusing their power in what he called a politically motivated investigation.
April 25
Then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during a meeting of the National Security Council at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, on Feb. 22, 2022. (Ahn Jung-hwan/Yonhap via AP, File)

South Korea’s former President Moon indicted for alleged bribery

April 24
South Korean President Syngman Rhee is seated at the Presidential House in Seoul on March 17, 1955. (AP Photo/George Sweers, File)

South Korea’s ousted president belongs to a long line of troubled leaders

April 4
South Korea's president-elect Yoon Suk Yeol attends a ceremony to disband a presidential election camp at the National Assembly Library in Seoul, South Korea, on March 10, 2022. (Song Kyung-seok/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Yoon Suk Yeol had a rapid rise in South Korean politics before an abrupt downfall

April 4
esta foto, proporcionada por la Oficina Presidencial de Corea del Sur, el presidente surcoreano, Yoon Suk Yeol, habla en una rueda de prensa de la oficina presidencial en Seúl, Corea del Sur, el martes 2 de diciembre de 2024. (Ministerio de Unificación de Corea del Sur vía AP).

A look at the South Korean leader who has been impeached after shocking martial law edict

December 14, 2024

South Korea’s president Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office, AP explains

South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, ending his tumultuous presidency and setting up an election to find a new leader, four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil with an ill-fated declaration of martial law.

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Members of main opposition Democratic Party stage a rally against South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

A look at the context behind South Korea’s shocking martial law edict

December 5, 2024
FILE - Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 2, 2019. The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has derided South Korea’s conservative president for being “foolishly brave” but called his liberal predecessor “smart" — rhetoric likely meant to help stoke domestic divisions in South Korea. Her statement Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, came as a response to South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s New Year’s Day address, in which he said he would bolster South Korea’s military capability and enhance its alliance with the U.S. to cope with North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Sister of North Korean leader derides South Korea’s president but praises his predecessor

January 3, 2024
FILE - South Korean soldiers look at the North Korean side through binoculars at Dora Observation Post in the demilitarized zone, DMZ, near the border village of Panmunjom that separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 27, 2009. A series of low-slung buildings and somber soldiers dot the landscape of the DMZ, the swath of land between North and South Korea where a soldier on a tour crossed into North Korea on Tuesday, July 18, 2023, under circumstances that remain unclear. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

The surreal Korean border village where a US soldier crossed into the North

July 19, 2023
Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. The court on Friday sentenced Cho to two years in prison, after he was found guilty of creating fake credentials to help his children get into prestigious schools, a scandal that rocked the country’s previous government and sparked huge protests. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

S. Korean court sentences ex-minister to 2 years in prison

February 3, 2023
A pair of dogs, Gomi, left, and Songgang, are unveiled at a park in Gwangju, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. The dogs gifted by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un four years ago ended up being resettled at a zoo in South Korea following a dispute over who should finance the caring of the animals. (Chun Jung-in/Yonhap via AP)

Dogs gifted by North’s Kim resettle in South Korean zoo

December 12, 2022
Former South Korean National Security Director Suh Hoon, center, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. South Korean prosecutors arrested the country’s former national security director on Saturday over suspicions that he engaged in a cover-up to hide details and distort the circumstances surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official near the rivals’ sea boundary in 2020. (Han Sang-kyun/Yonhap via AP)

Seoul arrests ex-top security official over border killing

December 3, 2022
FILE - In this photo provided on Oct. 2018, by South Korea Presidential Blue House, South Korean President Moon Jae-in touches a white Pungsan dog, named Gomi, from North Korea, in Seoul, South Korea. (South Korea Presidential Blue House via AP, File)

Dogs gifted by Kim Jong Un at center of South Korean row

November 8, 2022
Suh Wook, then-South Korean Defense Minister arrives at the government complex in Seoul, April 19, 2022. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said it has asked a local court to issue arrest warrants for Suh and former Coast Guard Commissioner General Kim Hong-hee over alleged abuse of power and falsifying documents related to the 2020 cases. It said Suh faced an additional allegation of damaging public records.(Kim Myung-won/Newsis via AP)

S. Korea seeks to arrest former officials in N. Korea case

October 18, 2022
Members of North Korean human rights stage a rally to denounce South Korea's deportation of two North Korean fishermen in 2019, in front of the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. South Korean prosecutors raided the country’s main spy agency Wednesday as part of investigations into two past North Korea-related incidents that drew criticism that the previous liberal government ignored basic principles of human rights to improve ties with Pyongyang. (Lim Hun-jung/Yonhap via AP)

SKorea spy agency searched amid squabbling over NKorea cases

July 13, 2022
FILE - Then South Korea's National Intelligence Service Director Park Jie-won speaks during a plenary meeting of the parliamentary intelligence committee at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 3, 2021. The National Intelligence Service accused former director Park Jie-won, who served from 2020 to May, 2022, of destroying internal intelligence reports related to North Korea’s fatal shooting of an unarmed South Korean citizen in waters near the countries' western sea border in 2020.(Ahn Jung-hwan/Yonhap via AP, File)

Seoul spy agency files charges against ex-chiefs over NKorea

July 6, 2022
Park Sang-chun, head of the Incheon Coast Guard, speaks during a press conference in Incheon, South Korea, Thursday, June 16, 2022. South Korea’s new conservative government says there is no evidence that a South Korean official slain by North Korea near the rivals’ disputed sea boundary in 2020 had intended to defect to the North. (Newsis/Kim Dong-young via AP)

Seoul: No evidence slain official tried to defect to N Korea

June 16, 2022
U.S. President Joe Biden, left, speaks as South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol listens during a news conference at the People's House inside the Ministry of National Defense, Saturday, May 21, 2022, in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

US, SKorea open to expanded military drills to deter North

May 21, 2022
South Korea's new President Yoon Suk Yeol waves from a car after the Presidential Inauguration outside the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

New South Korea leader offers support if North denuclearizes

May 10, 2022
South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers a farewell speech at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, May 9, 2022. Moon defended his policy of engaging North Korea, saying in his farewell speech Monday that he hopes that efforts to restore peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula would continue. (Sur Myung-gon/Yonhap via AP)

S Korea’s Moon calls for peace with North in farewell speech

May 9, 2022
Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi attends a news conference with his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, April 4, 2022. Japan announced Friday, May 6, 2022, that Hayashi will attend new South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's inauguration ceremony next week as part of an effort to bring the countries' damaged relations back to normal. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski, File)

Japan to send FM to S. Korean president’s inauguration

May 6, 2022
FILE - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, poses with South Korean President Moon Jae-in for a photo inside the Peace House at the border village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone, South Korea on April 27, 2018. The leaders of the rival Koreas have exchanged letters expressing hope for improved bilateral relations, which plummeted in the past three years amid a freeze in nuclear negotiations and North Korea's accelerating weapons development. (Korea Summit Press Pool via AP, File)

Leaders of 2 Koreas exchange letters of hope amid tensions

April 22, 2022
FILE - Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 2, 2019. The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim called South Korea’s defense minister a “scum-like guy” for talking about preemptive strikes on the North, warning Sunday, April 3, 2022, that the South may face “a serious threat.” (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Kim’s sister enraged by Seoul’s preemptive strike comments

April 3, 2022
FILE - South Korea's president-elect Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a news conference at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea on March 10, 2022. After winning a bitterly contested presidential election, South Korean conservative Yoon will enter office facing a quickly growing North Korean nuclear threat - and with few easy choices ahead to deal with it. (Kim Hong-ji/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Seoul’s next leader faces limited choices over North Korea

March 15, 2022
South Korea's president-elect Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a news conference at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea Thursday, March 10, 2022. Yoon was elected South Korea’s president in a win expected to herald a drive to seek a stronger alliance with the United States and take a tougher line on North Korea. (Kim Hong-ji/Pool Photo via AP)

S. Korean president-elect pledges tougher stance on N. Korea

March 10, 2022
FILE - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida delivers his first policy speech during an extraordinary Diet session at the lower house of parliament Oct. 8, 2021, in Tokyo. Kishida and his government welcomed the victory of South Korean president-elect Yoon Suk Yeol on Thursday, March 10, 2022, as Japanese officials and experts expressed sense of relief and hope for an improvement of the badly strained ties between the neighbors. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Japan cautiously welcomes South Korean president-elect

March 10, 2022
A man watches posters of presidential candidates on a street in Seoul, South Korea, March 3, 2022. Tens of millions of South Koreans are expected to vote Wednesday, March 9 to choose their new president. The winner will take office on May 10 for a single five-year term. Whoever wins, a new leader will be tasked with resolving various economic woes, easing threats from nuclear-armed North Korea and healing a nation sharply split along the lines of ideology, generation and gender. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

What to know about South Korea’s presidential election

March 9, 2022
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is pictured at the presidential Blue House in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. Moon, in his final months in office, has expressed concern over North Korea's expanding weapons program and the possibility it could resume nuclear and long-range missile tests that would revive fears of war in the region. (Joint Press Photo/Pool Photo via AP)

S. Korea’s outgoing president calls for US-North Korea talks

February 10, 2022

SKorea says it has signed $1.6 billion arms deal with Egypt

February 1, 2022
In this photo released by the Saudi Royal Palace, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, receives South Korean President Moon Jae-in, at Riyadh international airport, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. It is the latest visit by a head of state to Saudi Arabia as a growing number of world leaders resume bilateral meetings and trips abroad following COVID-19 vaccine rollouts in many parts of the world. (Bandar Aljaloud/Saudi Royal Palace via AP)

South Korea and Saudi Arabia need oil but eye clean energy

January 19, 2022
South Korean President Moon Jae-in speaks during Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week at Dubai Expo 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. The president of South Korea on Monday vowed to world leaders that his fossil fuel-dependent country and the oil-rich United Arab Emirates would jointly expand their investments in renewable energy to tackle climate change. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

From oil-rich UAE, South Korea president vows climate action

January 17, 2022
South Korean President Moon Jae-in arrives to Al Wasl Dome to attend an official ceremony at Dubai Expo 2020, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sunday, Jan. 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)

South Korean president visits UAE, showcasing deep ties

January 16, 2022
A man passes by a TV screen showing a file image of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 24, 2021. The South Korean government said Friday it will grant a special pardon to Park, who is serving a lengthy prison term for bribery and other crimes. The Korean letters read "President Moon Jae-in pardons Park Geun-hye." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

SKorea ex-President Park, jailed for corruption, is pardoned

December 24, 2021
South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, is invited to sign a visitor's book by Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison at Parliament House, in Canberra, Australia, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. Moon is on a two-day official visit to Australia. (Lukas Coch/Pool Photo via AP)

Australia and South Korea sign defense deal as leaders meet

December 13, 2021
People queue in line to wait for the coronavirus testing at a makeshift testing site in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon).

South Korea’s daily virus jump exceeds 7,000 for 1st time

December 8, 2021
Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the ruling Democratic Party, speaks during a press conference at the Seoul Foreign Correspondent Club in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. Lee said Thursday he will maintain Seoul's conciliatory approach toward North Korea if elected and questioned the effectiveness of U.S.-led economic sanctions in persuading the North to abandon its nuclear ambitions. (Yonhap via AP)

SKorea governing party candidate takes softer line on North

November 25, 2021
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