South Korea

South Korea will take similar measure as scrutiny of fuel switch locks intensifies

Agriculture minister Martin Heydon and State agencies bid to boost markets for Irish food

Globally the suicide rate is declining, but in South Korea it’s going up

The country’s new president promises a pragmatic foreign p

Lee’s decisive victory in snap election stands to usher in sea change in Asia’s fourth-largest economy

Election was triggered by the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol, the conservative president who declared martial law last December

South Korea's presidential election comes after country’s former leader was impeached for imposing martial law

Corruption charge connected to employment of his former son-in-law at a now-defunct ​small budget airline

Country’s chief justice formally expelled the president from office on Friday

Yoon Suk Yeol’s shortlived attempt to impose military rule triggered political crisis

Raging fires have killed at least 27 and displaced about 37,000

Pilot killed in firefighting helicopter crash amid battle to contain some of country’s worst forest fires in decades

Children were falsely documented as abandoned orphans and children’s identities were switched, commission finds

Han was accused of not opposing president Yoon Suk Yeol’s martial law declaration

Ruling paves way for Yoon’s release from jail following arrest over brief imposition of martial law

Air force says eight Mk82 bombs from two jets fell outside shooting range during live-fire exercises

Yoon denies ordering arrest of key politicians and accuses former first deputy director of South Korea’s spy agency of lying and fabricating evidence

Yoon’s lawyers attempt to cancel detention, arguing insurrection probe conducted in illegal manner

The Nobel Prize winning author is vigilant against the dangers of forgetting in a memorable, probing and exquisitely detailed novel

North Korean troops believed to have been withdrawn from frontline due to heavy losses

The dishes to try and restaurants to visit to celebrate what is, for millions of people, the most important holiday of the year

Yoon Suk Yeol has been in custody since becoming first sitting president to be arrested on January 15

Yoon has been incarcerated under a separate criminal investigation into whether he led an insurrection

Upon hearing that Yoon’s detention was extended, some Yoon supporters broke into the court

South Korea’s detained president Yoon refuses questioning, challenges arrest

South Korean president has pitted himself against prosecutors, the courts and the political opposition

Investigation by anti-corruption agency, police and military examining whether Yoon’s martial law declaration amounted to attempted rebellion

Voice and data recorders from Jeju Air flight ‘crucial’ to determining cause of accident

Some in impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol’s camp have said they hope Donald Trump will come to his aid after Washington inauguration

Blinken expresses confidence in South Korea democratic process

Security service and military troops on Friday prevented prosecutors from arresting Yoon Suk Yeol

Latest confrontation of political crisis that has paralysed South Korean politics and seen two heads of state impeached

Some 179 people killed in worst aviation disaster on country soil

Jeju air crash investigation ramps up as funeral procedures begin

Authorities work to identify rest of victims from Sunday’s South Korean crash as experts criticise runway design, saying embankment too close

Unprecedented move against incumbent leader marks latest blow in spiralling political crisis

Boeing plane operated by budget airline Jeju Air skidded off a runway at Muan International Airport, hit a wall and burst into flames

More will be known once officials inspect flight data retrieved from debris, but aviation experts say bird strike alone probably would not disable landing gear

Two crew members survive crash that came minutes after air-traffic controllers issued warning of bird-strike risks

Yoon Suk Yeol’s failure to obey summons may see authorities issue a warrant for his arrest