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 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.

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.

Yoon Suk Yeol's security officers refuse to allow police to arrest him over his failed attempt to impose martial law last month.

Taiwan has asked South Korea for assistance investigating a Chinese-owned ship suspected of cutting a subsea cable off its northern coast on Friday.

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.

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.

South Korean authorities face a deadline to arrest suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol, as their warrant expires Monday. Yoon, accused of a martial law mishap, remains barricaded with loyal guards.

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.

South Korea was spared a financial maelstrom even as it battles a political crisis, underscoring the extent to which its markets have matured, bolstered by swift efforts to reassure investors.