South Korea will release by Monday a preliminary report on last month's Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 people, the deadliest air disaster on the nation's soil, the transport ministry said on Saturday.
COLUMN. South Korea's central bank has downgraded its growth forecasts for 2025 and 2024 at a time when the won is at its weakest against the dollar and Trump's promised increase in customs barriers is likely to penalize the country,
South Korea's economic growth slowed in the last quarter of 2024, data from the central bank showed Thursday, as the country struggled with the fallout from impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol's
A South Korean court will weigh Saturday whether to extend the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, after investigators arrested him over a failed martial law bid.
South Korea’s impeached president has denied that he ordered the military to drag lawmakers out of the National Assembly to prevent them from voting to reject his martial law decree last month, as he appeared for the first time before the Constitutional Court that will determine his fate.
FILE PHOTO: Police officers and investigators of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials leave the official residence of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, following his arrest, in Seoul, South Korea, January 15, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo
Under investigation is what role a bird strike played in the air disaster that killed 179 people, the deadliest on the nation’s soil.
SEOUL : South Korea will release by Monday a preliminary report on last month’s Jeju Air plane crash that killed 179 people, the deadliest air disaster on the nation’s soil, the transport ministry said today.
South Korean prosecutors on Saturday again asked for an extension of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol's detention over his failed martial law bid, after a Seoul court rejected a previous demand, Yonhap news agency reported.
President Donald Trump is expected to address via videolink America's largest annual anti-abortion rally later on Friday. As we've reported, he also pardoned 23 anti-abortion activists a day before the March for Life in Washington DC. In 2020, Trump became the first US president to attend the rally in person.
Four Army units will deploy to Europe, South Korea and the Middle East in the spring as part of regular unit rotations.