Forty years after South Korea's spy chief was executed for shooting dead his boss, dictator Park Chung-hee, the assassin's sister is seeking to clear him of treason, arguing the killing was in the ...

South Korea’s beleaguered President Yoon Suk-yeol has now formally been charged with insurrection and will stand trial. Yoon ...

Until the Second Republic of Korea, the responsibility of guarding ... Cha Ji-jeol and Jang Se-dong, the heads of the service under Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan, respectively, were able ...

This crisis was touched off on Dec. 3 when Yoon formally declared, and attempted to impose, martial law amid political ...

It's one of cinema's strangest tales, with a renowned filmmaker kidnapped solely so their cinematic expertise could be used for propaganda.

The daughter of the former President of Korea, Park Chung-hee, Ms. Park joins a large roster of female leaders in Asia whose rise to power is often credited with familial male connections — a wife, a ...

In 2004, South Korea's GDP surpassed one trillion dollars. Beginning in the 1960s under President PARK Chung-hee, the government promoted the import of raw materials and technology, encouraged ...

The unveiling ceremony of the statue of former President Park Chung-hee is under way in front of the North Gyeongsang Provincial Office in Andong, southeastern South Korea, on Dec. 5, 2024.

SEOUL--South Korea said Friday it will ... ahead of parliamentary elections in 2016. Park is a daughter of late authoritarian President Park Chung-hee. She was elected in late 2012 on a wave ...

1987 -- South Korea reports its first confirmed death from AIDS. 1991 -- South and North Korea agree to form unified Korean teams at the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships and the 1991 FIFA World ...

A Seoul court cleared poet Kim Ji-ha of sedition charges in a re-trial, Friday, 39 years after he was sentenced to death by a ...