South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives for his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court in Seoul, South Korea on January 21, 2025. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “South Korean prosecutors on Sunday (January 26, 2025) indicted the impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol over his imposition of martial law last month,” news reports said. … Read more
South Korea’s impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol refused to appear for fresh questioning by investigators Thursday, a day after his dramatic arrest over an ill-fated martial law declaration.The Constitutional Court also opened its second hearing in a trial that will decide whether to uphold Yoon’s impeachment, following the dawn raid that made him the country’s … Read more
Many South Korean and Japanese women are marrying Western men to escape traditional gender roles, according to recent data and research. These women face pressure to prioritize family over career and earn significantly less than men. South Korea has the largest gender pay gap among developed nations, with women earning about two-thirds of men’s salaries. … Read more
A South Korean man has been sentenced to a suspended prison term for deliberately gaining more than 20 kilograms (44 pounds) to evade a tougher role in the country’s military conscription system, a Seoul court said Tuesday (November 26, 2024). In South Korea, all able-bodied men must serve in the military for 18-21 months, but … Read more
Medical professors in South Korea said they will cut back on the hours they spend in practice starting on Monday to support trainee doctors on strike for more than a month over a government plan to boost medical school admissions. “It is clear that increasing medical school admissions will not only ruin medical school education … Read more
Yoon also said that the high performance plasma operation will play a crucial role in the commercial nuclear fusion reactor in the future.(Credit: National Research Council of Science & Technology via phys.org) South Korea’s magnetic fusion device Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR) has set a new record in the field of fusion by reaching … Read more