South Korea's government has decided to extend the shutdown of the Muan international airport where a Jeju Air passenger jet had crashed to Jan. 14, Yonhap news agency reported on Monday.

South Korean IT services provider LG CNS started bookbuilding on Monday to raise up to $817 million in an initial public offering (IPO), according to a term sheet reviewed by Reuters. There are 19.37 million shares being sold in the deal in a price range of 53,

South Korea’s anti-corruption agency has requested that police take over efforts to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol after its investigators failed to bring him to custody following a standoff with the presidential security service last week.

The government has little to show for the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on pro-natal policies over nearly two decades.

Today is the deadline for the arrest warrant of South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol. Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will go on trial on charges of corruption. US NSA Jake Sullivan

A standoff between the impeached president’s security team and officials seeking to detain him was echoed on the streets outside the presidential residence.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday opened a visit to crisis-riven South Korea where he will seek delicately to encourage continuity with the policies, but not tactics, of the impeached president.

Although most people in South Korea are upset and angry at Yoon's decision to impose martial law, a core of his supporters have stayed loyal. Some even camped overnight, in freezing temperatures, to try and stop police reaching his home.

Right-wing YouTube​rs helped President Yoon Suk Yeol​ win his election. They are now his allies in the wake of his botched imposition of martial law.

South Korea's anti-corruption agency said on Monday that it had asked police to take over the execution of an arrest warrant for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol. The request comes after a failed attempt to execute an arrest warrant on Friday following a tense stand-off with presidential guards who formed a human chain to block access by the investigators.

According to CGTN, the RCEP, which came into effect in 2022, offers an alternative to the hegemonic selection, aims to eliminate tariffs on over 90% of goods traded among RCEP states, establishes common rules for trade, intellectual property and e-commerce, and strengthens confidence in an open rule-based multilateral trading order.