When Kim Seungeun first visited North Korea, he saw a barren land devastated by famine, its trees stripped by people desperate to heat their homes. He can still picture the corpses floating down the Tumen River on its border with …
The colonial hypocrisy of Japan
Because the first half of the 20th century is thought of in the West as an era of imperial decline, it’s easy to forget that, in these decades, there was one nation whose empire was fast expanding. Japan was on …
South Korea is stealing from the West
Lee Jung-jae is in many ways the epitome of South Korean soft power. He has won international fame — and an Emmy this week — with his starring role in the hit Netflix series Squid Game, the dystopian South Korean …
‘A huge boost’: Coronavirus patients feared to have been reinfected had returned false positives, says South Korea
Dead virus fragments likely cause of more than 290 people testing positive again for Covid-19, explains committee for emerging disease control
Health authorities in South Korea have reported that patients who appeared to have been reinfected with coronavirus had in …