Topic: Park Geun-hye

As South Korea continues to celebrate the striking Oscar success of director Bong Joon-ho's darkly satirical film "Parasite," locations around Seoul seen in the film have become unlikely tourist destinations.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in congratulated "Parasite"director Bong Joon-ho on Monday for his Academy Awards.

"In the Absence," a 29-minute documentary by director Yi Seung-jun and producer Gary Byung-seok Kam about the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster in South Korea, is nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in said his administration's goal is to eliminate corruption and bring South Korea into the ranks of the world's top 20 least corrupt countries.

South Korea's prosecutors resumed investigations into corruption cases with alleged ties to the presidential Blue House on Monday, but may have been turned away.

South Korea's main opposition conservatives are demanding the resignation of new Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae a day after she replaced top prosecutors investigating corruption scandals.

Saudi Arabia repeatedly requested South Korean pop superstars BTS perform in the country.

South Korean prosecutors raided two police agencies in Ulsan, as investigations are ongoing into the 2018 mayoral race in the city.

South Korea's National Assembly fell into disarray on Monday after conservative protesters stormed the building and assaulted lawmakers.

A special team of investigators in South Korea raided the government's audit office to seize documents related to the 2014 Sewol ferry sinking that led to the death of more than 300 people.

South Korea's presidential Blue House said state prosecutors were permitted to search and seize documents from the office as part of investigations into the former vice mayor of Busan, the country's second-largest city.

Japanese and U.S. diplomats in South Korea are coming under criticism for inquiring about President Moon Jae-in's political inclinations.

On Thursday morning, all of South Korea seemed to be focused on one thing: the Collegiate Scholastic Aptitude Test, the high-stakes college entrance exam.

A longtime friend of jailed former President Park Geun-hye pleaded not guilty on Wednesday as she attended the first hearing for a Supreme Court-ordered review of a corruption scandal.

South Korea's Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court decision to give a suspended jail sentence to Lotte chairman Shin Dong-bin for his part in a massive bribery scandal.