The BBC has spoken to people close to the president to understand what drove him to trigger an authoritarian takeover.

The South Korean government's fact-finding commission has suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud ...

The next day, then-president of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol, declared martial law.

Yoon Suk Yeol joins a list of the country's former leaders who have faced impeachment, exile and assassination.

Mr Kim Kyung-rae, a 60-year-old taxi driver in Taebaek, rarely picks up young passengers. Most of his customers are elderly.

As South Korea heads for a snap presidential election on Jun 3, frontrunner Lee Jae-myung is signalling a return to diplomacy ...

In the 1980s, South Korea embarked on an economic transformation that would turn it into a global manufacturing powerhouse ...

In 2004, South Korea's GDP surpassed one trillion dollars ... its grip on the economy amid the political changes of the 1980s and 1990s. The Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 hit South Korea ...

They were also indicted for mutiny and treason over the 1979 coup that put Chun in power and the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Gwangju in 1980, which killed hundreds. In 1996, Chun was ...