Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was arrested on Wednesday after investigators and police descended on his residence over his short-lived declaration of martial law last month.

It is partly down to a 1993 government policy specifically designed to enhance South Korea’s global position by exporting cultural products. The idea was to increase the country’s "soft power ...

The uneasy truce between nuclear-armed North Korea and US-allied South Korea remains one of the most vexing security concerns ...

South Korea’s history helps explain its culture. In less than 100 years, the East Asian nation broke free from Japanese occupation, survived conflict with North Korea and transformed its ...

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According to Kim, South Korea’s leisure culture is marked by a yearning for ... referencing the neo-Confucian dynasty that shaped Korean history from the 14th to the late-19th century.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s attempted martial law declaration sparked a wave of collective resistance from ...

What was it about South Korea that could produce such a robust protest culture? I reached out to Namhee Lee, a UCLA professor of modern Korean history, to learn more. What was your initial ...

South Korea’s history helps explain its culture. In less than 100 years, the East Asian nation broke free from Japanese occupation, survived conflict with North Korea, and transformed its ...

(Bloomberg) -- President Yoon Suk Yeol’s shock declaration of martial law revved up South Koreans from 0 to 100. Within hours of Yoon’s late night announcement on Dec. 3, protesters massed on ...