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South Korean lawmakers voted to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared martial law on Dec. 3 in a failed self-coup attempt. He will be stripped of his presidential powers while the court rules on the motion in the coming weeks. Story here: latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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BREAKING: South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol finally detained on insurrection charges. Investigators can hold him for 48 hrs after which they will need to get a separate arrest warrant.

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With historically opposing wildfire seasons, the US and Australia send each other firefighting resources when things are slow at home. But the L.A. fires hint this system is cracking. My latest: latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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Sometime In the last few years, I started noticing that South Korea's love of loanwords was reaching absurd levels. And as I discovered last fall, there's a government agency that's furiously trying to translate them: latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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Academics in Spain, France and elsewhere have tried to stop the creep of English into their languages. Now it's South Korea's turn. If you love language(s), you'll enjoy this Column One by Max Kim. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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The L.A. fires left behind the question of how — or if at all — we should rebuild in high-risk areas. 16 years ago, after nearly being wiped out in Australia's deadliest bushfire, the town of Marysville asked itself the same. W/ Maria Petrakis: latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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South Korea's Constitutional Court has just removed President Yoon Suk Yeol from office for declaring martial law last December. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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Love him or hate him, South Korea's new president Lee Jae-myung — a former child factory worker born into crushing poverty — has had an extraordinary life, which I wrote it about here: latimes.com/world-nation/s…

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A group of 105 South Koreans — led by a lawyer who was behind two presidential impeachments — is suing former president Yoon Suk Yeol for emotional damages suffered from his martial law declaration latimes.com/world-nation/s…