Yoon Suk Yeol joins a list of the country's former leaders who have faced impeachment, exile and assassination.

Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in has called his bribery indictment “unjust” and accused prosecutors of abusing their ...

There have been coups, an assassination and a suicide. Syngman Rhee, an American-educated Christian leader and independence activist, became South Korea’s first president in 1948 with U.S ...

Democratic Party nominee Lee Jae-myung will be retried on electoral violation charges, while the acting president has ...

They are convinced that Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s conservative former president ... It’s a battle fought with character assassination, indictments and now a chilling new precedent set ...

South Korea’s acting leader, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, says he is resigning amid reports he will run in next month’s ...

Before he became South Korea's first president, Syngman Rhee spent some ... where dissenters were brutally punished. Park was assassinated at a dinner party in October 1979 by his own spy chief ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Three years after ... Park, also the father of future President Park Geun-hye, was assassinated by his own spy chief during a late-night drinking session in 1979.