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Though I’d traveled throughout South Korea, Jeju always felt like a fabled land, sunny and warm at times, rainy and blustery ...
SEOUL — On Tuesday evening, after South Korea’s snap presidential election came to an end, a different kind of race unfolded on the country’s leading private broadcaster, SBS. As the results ...
Min Young-jae has not seen or heard anything about her eldest brother for 75 years. He was 19 and she was only 2 when, during ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The most destructive wildfires ever to hit South Korea were almost contained, ... Helicopters dropped buckets of water over hills that glowed red in the night.
A night of chaos: Inside South Korea’s six hours of martial law. Yoon Suk Yeol, South Korea’s since-impeached president, had been planning for months to impose martial law and target political ...
Crowds of people wrapped up against the bitter January cold clutch signs emblazoned with the slogan “Stop the Steal,” wave US flags, and don red MAGA-like hats. But this scene is 11,000 ...
In other words, South Korea—which only transitioned to democracy in the late 1980s and ’90s—is now going backward. One chart in the report shows a literal authoritarian turn under Yoon.
As Chinese companies accelerate their entry into the South Korean market, local tech giants are intensifying efforts to ...
SEONGNAM, South Korea — South Korean President-elect Lee Jae-myung has always described his politics as deeply personal, born of the “wretchedness” of his youth. In his last presidential run ...
A group of South Korean firefighters, visiting Golden for swift water training, found themselves at the scene of a car crash last weekend. They jumped in to help.
SEOUL, South Korea — Police faced off with security officials as they sought to raid South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office Wednesday and one of his top lieutenants attempted suicide ...
“It is driving us crazy,” said Ms An Mi-hee, 37. “You can’t sleep at night.” Since July, North Korea has amped up loudspeakers along its border with South Korea for 10 to 24 hours a day ...