Across Asia and Europe, the event stoked concerns about American stability, both domestically and on crucial foreign policy issues like Washington’s commitment to alliances.
Tag: South Korea
Fire Exposes Harsh Work Conditions Migrants Face in South Korea
Activists say the blaze that killed 23 laborers at a battery plant, most of them from China, shows that such workers need better protection.
After Escaping China by Sea, Dissident Kwon Pyong Faces His Next Act
Kwon Pyong recounted for the first time the series of gambles that got him out of China by jet ski, and almost a year later, out of South Korea.
Na Kyung Taek’s Photos Exposed a Bloody Crackdown. His Identity Was a Secret.
Na Kyung Taek’s photos bore witness — and helped bring international attention — to the military junta’s brutal suppression of a pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980.
Russia and North Korea’s Defense Pact Is a Told-You-So Moment in Asia
While the agreement rattled officials in South Korea and Japan, the two U.S. allies in recent years have been expecting growing security challenges from North Korea.
North Korea Has Lost ‘Many’ Troops to Mines in DMZ, South Says
North Korean soldiers have been sent into the mine-strewn buffer zone to do construction work since November, the South Korean military said on Tuesday.
More Doctors Walk Off the Job in South Korea
Physicians across the country staged a one-day strike, the latest escalation in a months-old protest against the government’s plan to train more doctors.
Jin of BTS Completes His Military Service
The K-pop group is still on hiatus until 2025, when the last of its members finish their mandatory enlistment in South Korea’s military. But the celebrating has begun.
Why Is North Korea Launching Balloons Carrying Trash?
The unusual offensive, across the world’s most heavily fortified border, is a revival of a Cold War-era tactic. The South has threatened to respond by blasting K-pop.
South Korean Marine’s Death Becomes Impeachment Threat for President
President Yoon Suk Yeol has been accused of intervening in an inquiry into an accidental death during a peacetime search and rescue operation.