Two months ago Lee Jae-yong was released early from a two and a half year prison term for bribery, embezzlement and other offences in connection with a corruption scandal

The world’s top maker of smartphones and memory chips has recovered from a series of setbacks

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.

The scandal has drawn hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets of Seoul for weekly demonstrations

The impeachment motion was carried by a wider-than-expected 234-56 margin in a secret ballot in parliament.

North Korea has fired two short-range ballistic missiles into seas east off its coast, defying a UN ban on the isolated country testing such weapons.

South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye has called for North Korea to walk away from nuclear weapons and take the "peace and shared development" path.