A special counsel refers to a special, or independent, prosecutor. Special counsels, which are independent of the public ...

South Korea's Supreme Court ruled in May, before Lee was elected, that Lee had violated election law by publicly making "false statements" during his 2022 presidential bid, and sent the case back to a ...

South Koreas conservative People Power Party (PPP) is in turmoil after a crushing defeat in the snap presidential election, ...

While his victory in the presidential election is an immediate win for South Korean democracy, Lee Jae-myung must now ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung’s campaign was marked a pragmatic pivot to the centre, but whether he will bridge ...

Meanwhile, Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the main opposition Democratic Party and a consistent front-runner in opinion polls, registered his candidacy on Saturday. In a Gallup Korea ...

Other evangelicals, like 70-year-old Gil Min-hwa, voted for Kim because she wants to see North and South Korea reunified. In ...

Liberal candidate Lee Jae-myung won a comfortable victory in South Korea’s snap presidential election. But far-right forces ...

The national assembly passes bills calling for investigations of Yoon Suk-yeol’s abortive attempt at imposing martial law ...

South Korea's right is looking to remake itself after a massive defeat in this week's snap presidential election that left it ...

Lee Jae-myung, who rose from childhood poverty to become South Korea’s leading liberal politician vowing to fight ...