SEOUL - South Korea's interim leader Han Duck-soo called on the nation on Wednesday to accept any decision from the Constitutional Court on impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol in a calm manner. Read more at straitstimes.

Following months of deliberation, South Korea's Constitutional Court will decide this week whether to uphold the legislature's impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol over his brief imposition of martial law in December and formally remove him from office or restore his presidential powers.

The Constitutional Court will announce on Friday whether Yoon Suk Yeol, who was impeached in December for declaring martial law, will be permanently removed from office or restored to power.

South Korean police plan to question a 56-year-old man on suspicion of starting at least one of the wildfires that recently devastated the country’s southern regions, killing 30 people and burning more than 119,

A South Korean man tending a family grave is suspected of sparking one of the ‘unprecedented’ wildfires that ravaged the southeastern part of the country last week, the National Police Agency said Monday.

South Korean firefighters were able to fully contain the wildfires that have ravaged the southeastern part of the country and left 30 dead, officials said, while authorities began a joint investigation into the cause.