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 ...

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 ...

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

The Korean people’s democratic capacity may ... just like the police under Syngman Rhee and the military under Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan. There’s also an urgent need for 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...