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Ahn Hee-jung was governor of South Chungcheong province when his aide Kim Ji-eun told a television interview earlier this year that he had raped her four times after she was hired.(Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)

South Korea’s former presidential hopeful acquitted in sex abuse case

The case involving Ahn Hee-jung is by far the highest-profile in the country’s growing #MeToo movement

Relations underwent a sudden turnaround as Moon used February’s Winter Olympics in the South to broker talks between Washington and Pyongyang.

North Korea threatens to cancel US summit

It is a sudden and dramatic return to the the rhetoric of the past by Pyongyang, after months of rapid diplomatic rapprochement on the peninsula

US president Donald Trump

Crude oil surges after Trump tears up Iran deal, equities mixed

Both main crude oil contracts have been rising in recent weeks on expectations that the president would withdraw from the 2015 pact

South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un walk together at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas

History and handshakes: Five key takeaways from the Korea summit

​It was more than a decade since the last inter-Korean summit and Friday’s meeting in the Demilitarised Zone did not disappoint

Relations underwent a sudden turnaround as Moon used February’s Winter Olympics in the South to broker talks between Washington and Pyongyang.

North and South Korea hold historic summit

The leaders of the two Koreas are at the ‘threshold of a new history’

Two former ‘comfort woman’ Tao Cheng-Chen and Estelita B Dy lay flowers to mourn the death of former ‘comfort women’

South Korea to stick with Japanese ‘comfort women’ deal

The issue of women forced into sexual slavery for Japanese troops during World War II is a hugely emotional one that has long marred ties.

Pressure: Publishers have thrown the book at the government for the three months it has given them to produce textbooks

South Korea proposes high-level talks with the North

In his speech Monday, Kim said the Olympics could provide a reason for officials from the neighbours "to meet in the near future".

Kim Jong-Un: North Korea could participate in the South’s Winter Olympics

Seoul and organisers have billed the Winter Games which begin on February 9 as a "peace Olympics" and have been keen for the North to take part.