South Korea's conservatives have staged unlikely comebacks before. Yoon is the second conservative president in a row to be removed from office, after Park Geun-hye was impeached and jailed in a corruption scandal in 2017.

Other evangelicals, like 70-year-old Gil Min-hwa, voted for Kim because she wants to see North and South Korea reunified. In her view, Kim values the alliance between South Korea and the US, which would help encourage a reunification that is “led by the South and grounded in democratic principles.”

North Korean state media on Thursday reported for the first time on the outcome of South Korea's presidential election held earlier this week.

South Korea’s liberal-led legislature has voted overwhelmingly to launch special investigations into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December and criminal all

South Korea’s liberal-led legislature has passed bills to launch special investigations into former President Yoon Suk Yeol’s short-lived imposition of martial law in December and

South Korea’s newly empowered liberal government wasted no time in making bold moves, as the legislature on Thursday approved a series of high-stakes bills aimed at launching independent investigations into former President Yoon Suk Yeol.