South Korea's conservatives have staged unlikely comebacks before. Yoon is the second conservative president in a row to be removed from office, after Park Geun-hye was impeached and jailed in a corruption scandal in 2017.

North Korean state media on Thursday reported for the first time on the outcome of South Korea's presidential election held earlier this week.

A woman comes out of a booth to cast her early vote in a polling station for the presidential election in South Korea. Third time’s the charm for Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung, now South Korea’s 14th president.

South Korea’s liberal-led legislature has voted overwhelmingly to launch special investigations into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December and criminal allegations against his wife.

South Korea’s liberal-led legislature has passed bills to launch special investigations into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December and

South Korea’s newly empowered liberal government wasted no time in making bold moves, as the legislature on Thursday approved a series of high-stakes bills aimed at launching independent investigations into former President Yoon Suk Yeol.