South Korea politics

South Korea’s ruling conservative party has amended its charter to only allow votes from PPP members in selecting new party leadership.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s latest round of pardons – including the release of Lee – sparked a wave of criticism.

The Yoon administration has opened investigations into two controversial incidents at the border with North Korea under former President Moon Jae-in’s watch.

Understanding the weaknesses of South Korea’s democracy requires looking to the country’s authoritarian past.

The latest scandal to rock the new administration may be the most serious: a charge that Yoon lied while on the campaign trail, violating South Korea's public office election law.

President Yoon's wife, Kim Keon Hee, has attracted controversy already.

“The tragic outcome was a brutal wakeup call to Korean democratic movements.”

Yoon has been compared to Biden’s own nemesis, Donald Trump, but he is far from a political iconoclast.

Yoon has two important tasks in front of him: mending emergent social divisions and making institutional changes to prevent – not just punish – corruption.

Reform will be difficult under a conservative president, but ending the state’s power to punish speech and restrict information is ultimately in the best interests of South Korea.

Exploring new survey data on perceptions of gender discrimination in South Korea, which became a major cleavage point in Wednesday's election.