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A royalty contract related to imported goods submitted by a company in 2025 [KOREA CUSTOMS SERVICE]

Global companies hamstring customs probes by omitting, deleting tax info: KCS data

Global companies are increasingly undermining customs investigations by refusing to submit tax data or deleting key materials before turning them in, according to recent data.

2026.3.30

Son Young-jo, an investigator of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, steps out of the presidential office in Yongsan, central Seoul, after failing to deliver a summons to President Yoon Suk Yeol on Dec. 16. [KIM HYEON-DONG]

President Yoon repeatedly disregards investigation summons

President Yoon Suk Yeol is repeatedly ignoring summons of investigative bodies regarding his Dec. 3 declaration of martial law.

2024.12.16

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President Yoon Suk Yeol gives a public address from the presidential residence in Yongsan District, central Seoul, after the passage of the impeachment motion against him on Dec. 14. [PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE]

President Yoon to be summoned for questioning in martial law investigation

The joint investigation headquarters, responsible for investigating the Dec. 3 declaration of martial law, said Monday that it would summon President Yoon for questioning as a suspect on charges of insurrection and abuse of power later this week.

2024.12.16

Hwang Ui-jo speaks with the press in this file photo dated Feb. 22, 2023, in Seoul. [NEWS1]

Police impose travel ban on Hwang Ui-jo over illegal sex tape allegations

Police slapped a travel ban on Nottingham Forest striker Hwang Ui-jo, accused of illegally filming sexual encounters without his partners’ knowledge.

2024.1.19

The National Security Intelligence headquarters in southern Seoul on Nov. 1. [JOINT PRESS CORPS]

Spy agency set to transfer counterespionage authority to police, but doubts remain

The National Intelligence Service (NIS) will transfer its counterespionage authority to the police on Jan. 1, according to an enforcement decree issued Tuesday...

2023.12.12

Yoo Hyuk-gi, accused of embezzling some 29 billion won ($22 million) as a de facto controlling stockholder of the Chonghaejin Marine Company that operated the Sewol ferry that sunk and killed over 300 people, mostly young students, will be repatriated to Korea this week. [YONHAP]

Sewol ferry owner's son to be extradited from U.S.

Yoo Hyuk-gi, son of Yoo Byung-eun, de facto owner of the sunken Sewol ferry, will be repatriated to Korea by U.S. authorities this week.

2023.8.3

Interior Minister Lee Sang-min announces a plan to establish a police oversight bureau within his ministry at the government complex in Jongno District, central Seoul on Monday. [NEWS1]

Interior Minister Lee Sang-min outlines plan to control police

The Interior Ministry announced a plan to create a new police bureau to strengthen its oversight over the National Police Agency on Monday, the same day that Commissioner General Kim Chang-yong offered to resign over blunders committed by the agency.

2022.6.27

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After the presidential election on March 9, the prosecution is speeding up its investigations into several suspicious cases.

2022.3.28

An office of Korea Land and Housing Corp. in Gyeonggi on Thursday. [YONHAP]

LH exec commits suicide in scandal's wake

An executive of the Korea Land and Housing Corp. (LH) was found dead near his apartment in Bundang District, Gyeonggi, on Friday. A passerby spotted the executive, 56, bleeding near the entrance of the apartment around 9:40 a.m. Friday and called...

2021.3.12

Officers of Ulsan police and fire department are inspecting on Sunday the high-rise apartment building in the city which was ablaze for more than 15 hours form Thursday to Friday, to determine the cause of the fire. [NEWS1]

Ulsan officials investigating cause of massive blaze that engulfed high-rise building

Ulsan police and fire officials on Sunday began investigating the cause of a Thursday night fire that engulfed a high-rise apartment building in the city and burned for more than 15 hours. “Our investigations will focus on where the fire began...

2020.10.11