Around the same time, South Korea rapidly grew rich, benefitting from an export boom in cars and electronics. And money from ...

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The recent crop of films on North-South Korea relations reflects a deep-seated yearning for the reunification of Korea ...

In a year filled with increasing and overwhelming natural disasters, Milwaukee Independent staff returned to their hometown ...

It's one way to get a glimpse at a mysterious place. A Starbucks has opened in Gimpo-si, South Korea. The city borders North ...

The bizarre behaviour of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, who early this month suddenly – and disastrously for himself – ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a key policy-setting meeting of the country's ruling party last week ahead of the new ...

During a five-day plenary meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party, Kim called the U.S. “the most reactionary state that regards ...

This article is authored by Ananya Raj Kakoti, scholar, international relations, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Last month, after 53-year-old poet and novelist Han Kang won the Nobel Prize for her literature, online boards were full of memes noting South Korea’s “Culture Victory” — a reference to ...

The successive impeachments that suspended the country’s top two officials are unprecedented, and the deputy prime minister Choi Sang-mok is now South Korea's new interim leader.