Jamie Maxwell reports from Seoul. I arrived in Seoul on 15 January, the day the president was arrested. Armed police had to ...

I ARRIVED in Seoul on January 15, the day the president was arrested. Armed police had to scale the walls of his compound and force their way past ...

Lieutenant General, Chun In-bum, of the South Korean army stressed that soldiers belonging to the Storm Corps, one of the elite units of the Kim Jong-un-led regime's armed forces, would be sent. “They ...

Memories of seeing those bodies still haunt me in my sleep.” Hundreds and possibly thousands died amid the forced labour, violence and sexual abuse that prevailed in the group homes and detention ...

Intense turmoil within the ruling elite had led to General Chun Doo-Hwan usurping power in December 1979. On May 17, a few days before my arrival in Seoul, Chun, in a military coup, had declared ...

SEOUL – South Korean parliamentary lawyers seeking President Yoon Suk Yeol’s removal over his short-lived imposition of martial law compared him to a dictator on Feb 25 during their final ...

Lee Kwang-beom, one of the lawyers for parliament, compared Yoon to previous autocratic South Korean leaders including Park Chung-hee and Chun Doo-hwan. Yoon wanted to create a world where his every ...

Recently, a Chinese TikToker's video imitating former President Chun Doo-hwan in Gwangju has become the center of controversy, prompting Professor Seo Kyung-deok of Sungshin Women's University to ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- While the police investigation's over, Sammy Chun's family said they're not giving up hope of finding their little girl. "Just the small hope that Sammy might still be ...

The Chun family is offering a $50,000 reward for Samantha Chun’s safe return or information that leads to her safe return by March 1. According to the family: “This reward will be offered to ...

At a match in Taishan, Shandong on February 14, Chinese fans troll visiting team Gwangju FC by holding up portraits of former South Korean military strongman Chun Doo-hwan, who ordered the May ...