For hours, the atmosphere in the streets surrounding South Korea’s Constitutional Court in downtown Seoul had been tense. Dozens had camped out overnight in the early spring chill in the lead-up to the court’s historical decision on Friday. The crowds for and against the dismissal of the country’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, were separated…
For hours, the atmosphere in the streets surrounding South Korea’s Constitutional Court in downtown Seoul had been tense. Scores had camped out overnight in the early spring chill in the lead-up to the court’s historic decision on Friday. The crowds for and against the dismissal of the country’s impeached president, Yoon Suk Yeol, were separated…
The authorities in South Korea were expecting tens of thousands of protesters to descend on central Seoul on Friday as the nation’s Constitutional Court decides the fate of President Yoon Suk Yeol. At least 14,000 police had been deployed to the area around the court, closing subway stations and locking down an area near a…
The South Korean police have summoned a Japanese woman for questioning after she was accused of kissing Jin, a member of the K-pop supergroup BTS, without consent during a public event last year. The Japanese woman, whose name was not revealed, was in a crowd of fans at the event in Seoul last June that…
Three workers were killed and five others were injured when part of a highway construction site collapsed in South Korea on Tuesday morning, officials said. Emergency crews were searching through the rubble for victims, South Korea’s Fire Department said. The collapse happened at about 9:50 a.m. near the city of Cheonan, in South Chungcheong Province,…