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South Korea Lurches From One Political Crisis to Another
In five months, the country has had three acting presidents after the leader who imposed martial law was impeached. And now ...
South Korea presidential frontrunner's eligibility in doubt after court ruling
South Korea's Supreme Court threw into doubt frontrunner Lee Jae-myung's eligibility to run for the presidency on Thursday by ...
South Korea’s ‘sea women’ are genetically adapted for their tough trade
Past work from Ilardo has shown that nomadic Bajau divers in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines have especially large ...
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South Korea faces a deepfake porn crisis—real people are paying the price
In South Korea, a surge in deepfake porn crimes is causing havoc, with victims’ faces being superimposed onto explicit images ...
South Korea’s unique housing culture has inspired a major new exhibition
A new show by the Korean-born contemporary artist Do Ho Suh at London’s Tate Modern gallery explores the transience of home.
About 4,700 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded fighting for Russia, South Korea says
The assessment came two days after North Korea confirmed for the first time that it had sent combat troops to help Russia ...
South Korea, US aim for trade package before tariff pause ends in July
South Korea said it requested exemptions from reciprocal and item-specific U.S. tariffs, and offered cooperation on ...
Deepfake porn is destroying real lives in South Korea
Ruma was having lunch on a summer day in 2021 when her phone began blowing up with notifications. When she opened the ...
Inside South Korea’s foreign medical tourism boom, and how K-pop and K-drama act as draws
Influenced by K-pop and social media, Chinese and Indonesians join Japanese, Americans, Russians seeking facelifts, skin ...