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South Korea’s Constitutional Court reinstated Prime Minister Han Duck-soo to the post of acting president on Monday, striking down his impeachment as he pledged to focus on steering Asia’s fourth-biggest economy through a U.S. trade war. The ruling, which comes amid months of political turmoil in the country, returns Han …
Read More »South Korea’s acting president Han faces impeachment vote from opposition party
South Korea’s main opposition party said it will introduce a bill to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo on Thursday and hold a vote on Friday, a move that could deepen the country’s constitutional crisis triggered by a short-lived martial law. The opposition Democratic Party had threatened to impeach Han if …
Read More »South Korea’s Han Kang awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life,” the award-giving body said on Thursday. “She has a unique awareness of the connections between body and soul, the living and …
Read More »Judge finds no documentation to support Global News reporting on Han Dong allegations
An Ontario Superior Court judge has found no documented evidence to support allegations made against former Liberal MP Han Dong in a series of Global News stories last year. The judge made the comments as he rejected an application from Corus Entertainment to throw out Dong’s lawsuit against the news …
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