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☆ Kim Yong-hyun: South Korean prosecutors detain ex-defense chief over martial law imposition
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-08 | by ( Jerome Taylor | Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Senior prosecutor Park Se-hyun said in a televised statement Sunday that authorities launched a 62-member special investigation team on the martial law case. Kim is a central figure in Yoon’s martial law enforcement, which led to special forces troops encircling the National Assembly building and army helicopters hovering over it. In Kim’s impeachment motion document, the Democratic Party and other opposition parties accused him of proposing martial law to Yoon. The Defense Ministry said it has suspended three top military commanders over their alleged involvement in the martial law imposition. In a parliamentary hearing on Friday, Lee, one of Yoon’s closest associates, defended Yoon’s martial law decree, saying the president exercised his powers “within the boundaries of constitutional processes and law.”

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SEOUL, South Korea — The head of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s governing party on Friday signaled more openness to his removal as president for plunging the key U.S. ally into chaos with a short-lived declaration of martial law, reversing his position the day before an impeachment vote. Han Dong-hoon, leader of the conservative People Power Party (PPP), had earlier said he opposed impeaching Yoon because it would only create more turmoil. The PPP, which repudiated Yoon’s martial law declaration, had asked him to leave the party but said earlier that it opposed the impeachment motion. Six opposition parties had proposed impeaching Yoon over the martial law order, which banned political activity and censored the media. Blinken also reaffirmed the “ironclad” nature of the U.S. alliance with South Korea, which it views as an important bulwark against North Korea, China and Russia, and which hosts almost 30,000 American troops.

Persons: Yoon Suk, Han Dong, impeaching Yoon, Yoon, ” Han, Han, “, Kim Yong, Lee Sang, ” Lee Jae, myung, Kim Seon, ”, Kwak Jong, Cho Tae, yul, Antony Blinken, Yonhap, Blinken, Kwak, Stella Kim, Jennifer Jett Organizations: South, People Power Party, PPP, South Korean, Democratic Party, Ministry of Defense, Getty, ROK, State Department, U.S, Korea Nuclear Consultative Group, National, Commission Locations: SEOUL, South Korea, Seoul, AFP, Republic of Korea, U.S, North Korea, China, Russia, Korea, Washington, South Korea’s, Hong Kong

☆ A North Korean Voice That Kim Jong-un Would Like to Silence
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-02 | by ( Choe Sang-Hun | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

For seven years, Kim Seongmin has been facing a cancer that has spread to his lungs, brain and liver. Doctors recently gave him only months to live. Still, Mr. Kim broadcasts into North Korea twice a day, bringing its people news and information they are cut off from because of Pyongyang’s strict censorship laws. “North Korea is keeping its people like frogs trapped in a deep well,” said Mr. Kim, 62, during an interview at his rural home on this island west of Seoul, where he records and edits shows for Free North Korea Radio. “We broadcast to help them realize that there is something wrong with their political system.”For two decades, North Korean defectors living in South Korea have been infiltrating the North with outside news and entertainment, through balloons floated across the border or broadcasts such as those from Mr. Kim’s radio station.

Persons: Kim Seongmin, Kim, ” , Kim Organizations: Free North Korea Radio Locations: North Korea, Seoul, South Korea

☆ Car Plows Into Pedestrians in South Korea, Killing Nine
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Choe Sang-Hun | More About Choe Sang-Hun | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Nine people were killed when a car crashed into pedestrians near a busy intersection in central Seoul on Monday, officials said. Four others were injured in the incident in front of city hall, but their wounds were not life-threatening, said Kim Chun-soo, a senior fire department official. The driver of the car claimed that he lost control of it when it suddenly accelerated, local news media reported. Kim Seong-hak, a public safety official at the Jung-gu district in central Seoul, said the authorities could not immediately confirm the reports, adding that the police were investigating the driver. He also said officials were investigating whether the driver was drunk or on drugs.

Persons: Kim Chun, Kim Seong Locations: Seoul

☆ Forced labour victims protest in wheelchairs, reject S.Korea deal on Japan
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Ju-Min Park | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

REUTERS/Kim Hong-JiSEOUL, March 7 (Reuters) - Two elderly South Korean victims of wartime forced labour took to the streets in wheelchairs on Tuesday, saying they rejected a compensation deal announced this week, potentially complicating Seoul's efforts to end a diplomatic spat with Japan. Under President Yoon Suk Yeol's plan, South Korea would compensate former forced labourers through an existing public foundation funded by South Korean private-sector companies, rather than seeking payments from Japan. Overall there are about 1,815 living victims of forced labour in South Korea, according to government data. The compensation for each woman was estimated at around 210 million won ($161,465.18), according to the Victims of Japanese Wartime Forced Labor support group. Is he truly a South Korean?

☆ Tragedy struck around the globe. Mass casualty events in South Korea, India, and Somalia left nearly 400 dead this past weekend.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( Lauren Frias | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

In Seoul, South Korea, more than 150 people were killed in a crowd crush during Halloween festivities on Saturday. A woman pays tribute for the victims of the Halloween celebration stampede, on the street near the scene on October 31, 2022 in Seoul, South Korea. The tragedy marks one of the worst to happen in South Korea since the Sewol ferry sank off the country's southwestern coast in 2014, taking the lives of 250 South Korean students. South Korean officials said state authorities had no safety plans in place to deal with the mass crowds that gathered during Halloween weekend. "There have been no safety management guidelines or manuals for events without an organizer," said Kim Seong-ho, head of the disaster and safety management headquarters of the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, local newspaper The Hankyoreh reported.

☆ „Chirurgii-fantomă”; Medici fără licență sunt lăsați să facă operații estetice în Coreea de Sud
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-11 | by ( ) www.jurnal.md time to read: +6 min

Sursa foto: GettyImages„Chirurgii-fantomă”; Medici fără licență sunt lăsați să facă operații estetice în Coreea de SudUn fenomen ia amploare în Coreea de Sud: „chirurgii-fantomă”. Sunt persoane fără drept de practică, dar care fac operații estetice în clinici specializate în locul adevăraților medici. Dar când a ajuns la spital, Kwon a aflat că fratele lui, în vârstă de 24 de ani, e în comă. În cele din urmă, tânărul a fost transferat la un spital din Seul, unde a murit. În ciuda morții lui Kwon, clinica a rămas deschisă și a continuat să își facă reclamă că niciun pacient nu a avut neplăceri în ultimii 14 ani.

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