President Lee Jae-myung's approval rating stood at 58.6 percent during the first week of his presidency, a poll showed Monday. In the Realmeter poll of 2,507 people aged 18 or above nationwide ...

New South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has chosen a finance minister who wants to run Asia’s fourth-largest economy like a ...

President Lee Jae-myung's nominated Song Mi-ryeong to remain in her post as minister of agriculture -- a position she had ...

The South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol will grant a special pardon to ex-President Lee Myung-bak, who was sentenced to a 17-year prison term for a range of corruption crimes.

S ix months of turmoil in South Korea are over. Lee Jae-myung of the liberal Democratic Party won a commanding victory, with ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea has issued a pardon to Lee Myung-bak, the former president who was sentenced to a 17-year term in 2020 on bribery and embezzlement charges, Yoon’s office ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol held a dinner meeting with former President Lee Myung-bak and his wife on Monday and discussed Korea's plans to build nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic.

The most prominent beneficiary of this round of presidential pardons was Lee Myung-bak, a former South Korean president who was in office from 2008 to 2013. In 2020, ...

South Korea’s current leader issued a special pardon for former conservative president Lee Myung-bak, who had been serving a 17-year sentence for corruption that could have kept him behind bars ...

SEOUL—South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol pardoned former President Lee Myung-bak, setting the disgraced leader free from his 17-year prison sentence for bribery and embezzlement. Mr. Yoon ...

SEOUL, Dec. 27 (UPI) --President Yoon Suk Yeol on Tuesday granted wide-ranging special pardons to former President Lee Myung-bak and a several other high-profile politicians and former officials ...

A liberal president’s election in South Korea appears to have kindled a conciliatory mood among North Korean officials.