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President Yoon Suk Yeol was placed under a travel ban Monday pending an investigation into treason and other charges related to his short-lived imposition of martial law last week, with political turmoil deepening over Yoon's political future.

Prosecutors announced Sunday that President Yoon Suk-yeol has been officially named a suspect in a treason investigation related to his short-lived martial law declaration on Dec. 3. This marks the first time in South Korea’s history that a sitting president is under criminal investigation while still in office.

"Troops of the 707th unit are the most unfortunate victims used by former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun," Kim said in a press conference near the presidential office in central Seoul.

The prosecution arrested former Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun on Sunday amid a probe into alleged treason following President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived declaration of martial law last week.

A number of lawmakers left parliament ahead of the vote to impeach President Yoon over his decision to impose a short-lived period of martial law earlier this week, with just two seen remaining.

I wonder what's going on. The korean Won already devalued a lot, damn, I was preparing to move some of my money out of the country around this time.

In Germany you can buy Stollen at Aldi for 4.79 € / kg.

Just around the corner at our house older Koreans are doing guerilla gardening.

It's getting weirder and weirder, should I start looking for flight tickets for my family?

North Korea threatens simultaneous barrage of 5,700 long-range artillery shells, ‘raining shells on the Seoul metropolitan area’.

We went to a rock concert and there was a nice sunset behind it. The band playing was SURL, this is one of their songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCusgx41tqk

Apple’s FindMy network is launching in South Korea in Spring of 2025, which will allow Apple users to locate their devices running MacOS and iOS, as well as use precision finding to track items with AirTags on them.

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Every now and then I see someone on YouTube wonder how it can be that the streets and sidewalks here in Korea are so clean while there are no public trashcans available. The secret is: Old people.

I personally don't think Korean food is overly spicy, it's just that I don't like this specific kind of spicy from the chili flakes. Somehow they are in 80% of the Korean food.

We have to pay half a million out of our pocket even though his mom is Korean, but the baby is not, because his mom wasn't Korean when he was born.

I can only imagine it helps, if it has sleeping wagons - designated for boosting birth rate - connected to it.

We are visiting the inlaws and making dumplings.

A Danish report on Thursday said that adoptions of children from South Korea to Denmark in the 1970s and 1980s was “characterized by systematic illegal behavior” in the Asian country.

The latest forecast by Statistics Korea puts the population in 2072 at 36.2 million, a 30% decline from the current 51.7 million, even though the fertility rate may recover a bit to 0.68 in 2026. The population is expected to fall every year starting in 2025.

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It is difficult for hotels to hire staff because of the typically heavy workloads and comparatively low compensation.

We're still not married, but will probably be able to marry next year or in 2 years and add to that number.

He was convicted under a law that prohibits public praise of North Korea.

Korea's beer imports from China plunged more than 40 percent last month from a year earlier following the release of a viral video showing a man urinating into a tank at Tsingtao Brewery, the customs office said Thursday.

I'm just looking at Koreans eating donkatsu (Schnitzel) and it is eaten here with fork and knife. 90% of them hold the fork in their right hand, which is interesting and the opposite from what I've been fought as a child.

Where I live on the west-coast of Canada, alleys are dirty and disgusting. Most people don't go into the alleys. I think this is common is a lot of cities in Canada and the U.S.

Korea has an Uber like service called: Tada (타다).

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Here in Korea I see a lot of fortune tellers and they even have quite many customers for some reason.

Behind the house of the Speaker of the National Assembly of South Korea there is a little public gym.

I'm from Germany and beer festivals are big events with thousands of visitors like Oktoberfest, during 2-3 days.

I wasn't aware that 70% of Koreas electricity is made by burning coal ...

In my neighborhood a bridge collapsed and killed a pedestrian. Now they're trying to fix the other bridges, but it's not easy.

I was walking around close to the mall around here and there are many park attendants who tell you how to park. They all sit in those little containers and watch TVs which seem to be from the 90ies.

A jet ski rider who has been detained since he washed up on South Korea’s coast is believed to be a Chinese dissident who feared for his safety and fled by crossing hundreds of miles of sea, trailing barrels of fuel behind him.