The new president, who will take office immediately, faces a number of pressing challenges including repairing domestic divisions, navigating US trade tensions and confronting North Korea’s growing ...

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached on Dec. 14 after declaring martial law. Prime Minister Han Duck-soo then became the country's acting leader before being impeached himself.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court overturned the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating the nation's No. 2 official as acting leader Monday while ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s Constitutional Court overturned the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating the nation's No. 2 official as acting leader Monday while ...

A major trigger for the opposition’s push to impeach Han was his refusal to fill three vacant seats at the Constitutional Court's nine-member bench. That was a highly explosive issue because the ...

Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ IAEA On March 24, South Korea’s Constitutional Court overturned the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, who was suspended from his duties by a vote of the ...

South Korean lawmakers impeached acting president Han Duck-soo on Friday, sinking the country into a deeper political crisis two weeks after his predecessor was suspended over a martial law ...

Parliament has impeached acting President Han Duck-soo less than two weeks after suspending President Yoon Suk-yeol’s powers over his short-lived declaration of martial law, plunging the country ...

A total of 192 lawmakers voted to impeach Han, more than the 151 votes needed in the 300-member legislature. Chaotic scenes unfolded in parliament during the vote, as lawmakers of the ruling ...

S. Korea Parliament majority votes to impeach Acting President Han Duck-soo Mr Han Duck-soo has been serving as acting president since Dec 14 following President Yoon Suk Yeol’s suspension.