A Korean Air flight carrying more than 150 passengers landed safely at a Japanese airport Friday shortly after pilots reported seeing smoke in the cockpit, officials said. The crew on the Boeing 737, which had left the Korean port city of Busan earlier in the day, noticed smoke coming out of cockpit panels just minutes … Read more
The daughter of South Korea’s “Rasputin”, whose lavish lifestyle in Europe saw her caught up in the country’s snowballing influence-peddling scandal, was freed Saturday after being extradited from Denmark. Chung Yoo-Ra is the equestrian daughter of Choi Soon-Sil, the close confidante of impeached ex-president Park Geun-Hye and the woman at the heart of the scandal … Read more
The equestrian daughter of South Korea’s ‘Rasputin’, whose lavish lifestyle in Europe was allegedly funded by millions of dollars in bribes, returned home today to face questioning. Chung Yoo-Ra is the daughter of Choi Soon-Sil, the close confidante of impeached ex-president Park Geun-Hye and the woman at the heart of the scandal which toppled Park. … Read more
The equestrian daughter of South Korea’s “Rasputin”, whose lavish lifestyle in Europe was allegedly funded by millions of dollars in bribes, returned home Wednesday to face questioning by prosecutors. Chung Yoo-Ra, 20, is the daughter of Choi Soon-Sil, the close confidante of impeached ex-president Park Geun-Hye. Choi — dubbed “Rasputin” for her strong influence over … Read more
The daughter of the woman at the centre of a corruption scandal that led to the ousting of South Korea’s president was arrested by prosecutors on a plane bound for Seoul, reports said Wednesday. Chung Yoo-Ra, 20, was arrested immediately after boarding a Korean Air flight from Amsterdam to Incheon early Wednesday morning after being … Read more
Tensions have remained high in the more than 60 years since North and South Korea fought a fierce war from 1950-53. Here is a timeline of relations between the two Koreas, who remain technically at war: – June 25, 1950: the army of communist North Korea crosses the 38th parallel, which separates it from capitalist … Read more
Once a driver of growth and a source of national pride, South Korea’s family-led conglomerates are becoming instead objects of public scorn as a massive corruption scandal puts them under mounting pressure to reform. Tuesday’s indictment of the heir to the Samsung empire, Lee Jae-Yong, and four of his colleagues on charges of bribery and … Read more