A passenger plane carrying 181 people crashed while landing in an airport in southwestern South Korea on Sunday, officials said. At least 28 people were killed, local media reported. The plane, operated by South Korea’s Jeju Air, was landing in Muan International Airport when it veered off the runway, local fire department officials said.

At least 28 people were dead on Sunday after an airliner went off the runway and crashed in South Korea, Yonhap news agency reported.

The country has passed the U.N. threshold of a "super-aged society," with one in five of the population now aged over 65.

Han has been the caretaker leader after President Yoon Suk Yeol was impeached by the assembly over his short-lived imposition of martial law earlier this month.

South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has voted to impeach the country’s acting leader Han Duck-soo. The assembly approved the impeachment motion in a 192-0 vote. Han’s impeachment further deepens South Korea’s political crisis and damages its international image.

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President Yoon Suk Yeol Yoon imposed martial law in the middle of the night earlier this month, plunging South Korea into its worst political crisis in decades.

At least 47 people are dead after an airplane veered off a runway upon landing at an airport in South Korea on Sunday morning, according to local media.

The passenger-flight accident occured during landing as the aircraft veered off a runway and collided with a fence.

A deepening political crisis in South Korea has not diminished the military readiness of 28,500 troops stationed in the Asian state, a U.S. official said on Friday, but Washington is closely monitoring the situation.

South Korea's National Assembly impeached the country's acting president, Han Duck-soo, on Friday, marking the second time in December that it has chosen to remove the country's leader.