The Seoul Central District Court’s Criminal Division 25 (Judge Jee Kui-youn) will deliver its verdict on the 19th in the case of former President Yoon Suk-yeol, accused of leading an insurrection. The ...

Yet his actions created deep cleavages on the South Korean right. His former right-of-centre party, the People Power Party ( ...

Yoon Suk Yeol could face the death penalty when judges rule on the martial law crisis that many in South Korea see as a dark moment they would rather forget ...

The country has not carried out capital punishment in almost three decades, despite its courts continuing to hand down death sentences.

Former President Yoon Suk-yeol will attend the first-instance sentencing hearing for the insurrection leader charge case ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea's disgraced former president Yoon Suk Yeol could be banished to death row on February 19 ...

The case against Yoon Suk Yeol marks a pivotal moment for South Korea’s democracy and could mark the second time a leader is sentenced to death for insurrection.

Some 180 military personnel were identified as involved in former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived 2024 ...

As South Korea awaits a historic judgment on the 2024 martial law crisis, tomorrow’s ruling will determine the legal fate of ...

South Korea's controversial capital punishment is in the spotlight as prosecutors seek the death penalty for the country's former president. Yoon Suk Yeol is facing insurrection charges over his ...

PPP lawmaker Yoon Sang-hyun said the conservative party is "standing on the edge of a cliff" and urged former President Yoon ...

SEOUL — A South Korean court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol as investigators seek to charge her over various suspected crimes, including bribery, ...