North and South Korea may share history and ethnicity, but today they couldn’t be more different. This analysis explains the deep structural contrasts — from economy to infrastructure — that shape the ...

The Bank of Korea estimated North Korea’s GDP at approximately $28.7 billion (32.9 trillion Korean won) in 2019, meaning that the Hallyu’s overseas market alone generated funds equal to around ...

Tens of thousands of ethnic Koreans were lured to North Korea from Japan during the Cold War. Five families are now in court over the hardships they endured.

Japan High Court Finds Pyongyang Lured People to Life of Hardship Between 1959 and 1984, approximately 93,000 ethnic Koreans (Zainichi) and Japanese migrated from Japan to North Korea under the so ...

North Korea, on the other hand, does not tolerate any public form of dissent. ... Koreans from north and south share common language, ethnicity, culture and in many cases familial roots.

Eiko Kawasaki was 17 when she voluntarily left Japan for North Korea. ... All were either ethnic Koreans born in Japan or Koreans brought to Japan to work during the 1910-1945 colonial era, ...

Lee Tae-kyung has campaigned tirelessly in South Korea to share the story of the 93,000 people who migrated from Japan to North Korea from 1959 to 1984 and were forced to stay.

That partial success has inspired some people outside the United States to sue North Korea in local courts. One is Eiko Kawasaki, 79, an ethnic Korean woman born in Japan, who moved to North Korea ...