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  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
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    Despite increased government incentives, female employees are reluctant to have babies due to a lack of support at work and at home

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    South Korea’s birth rate has become a national emergency

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  • Thursday, 25 January, 2024
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  • Sunday, 22 October, 2023
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  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
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    US hails South Korea and Japan for plan to compensate forced labour victims

    Rights groups denounce proposal as Pacific countries ease trade tensions amid push for regional co-operation

    South Korean activists protest against a proposal to compensate victims of Japanese wartime forced labour in front of the foreign ministry in Seoul on Monday
  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
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    Ageing population and underemployment add to pressures as Seoul pushes for reform

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    South Korea’s former president Lee Myung-bak to be pardoned

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  • Wednesday, 26 October, 2022
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    South Korea must remember the abuses Pyongyang would rather forget

    Seoul does not have any settled policy on future legal recourse for the victims of North Korea’s atrocities

    North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un meets military personnel in Pyongyang. South Korean governments have not always been supportive of efforts to document abuses in the north
  • Monday, 22 August, 2022
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    US and South Korea launch war games for first time in 4 years

    Military drills come as regional tensions mount over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme and Taiwan status

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  • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
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    South Korea divided over response to fishermen’s murders

    Raids carried out as new conservative government in Seoul accuses predecessor of trying to appease Pyongyang

    Two fishermen who admitted killing 16 crew members are handed over to North Korea soldiers
  • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
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    Kim Jong Un says Korean peninsula on the ‘brink of war’

    North Korea’s leader threatens to ‘wipe out’ foes with nuclear weapons

    North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un places a flower to pay tribute to fallen soldiers on the  69th anniversary of the Korean war armistice
  • Wednesday, 13 July, 2022
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    Kim Jong Un regime blames South Korea balloons for Covid spread

    North Korean state media says large outbreak is due to ‘alien things coming by wind’

    Large balloons carrying propaganda materials are released in South Korea
  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
    North Korea nuclear tensions
    Kim Jong Un tones down rhetoric in rare friendly exchange with South Korea

    North Korean leader praises President Moon Jae-in after weeks of rising tensions and missile tests

    Kim Jong Un and Moon Jae-in pose for a photo at the border village of Panmunjom in 2018
  • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
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    South Korea’s raucous politics: presidential election defined by mudslinging and scandal

    Poll features two populist candidates mired in controversy over everything from misogyny to property deals

  • Tuesday, 22 February, 2022
    Christian Davies
    Toronto bakery is burnt by a cultural appropriation feud

    A cake shop is on the unlikely frontline of national identity disputes between South Korea and China

    A performer, second from right, clad in a traditional Korean dress waves during the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, surrounded by representatives of other ethnic minorities in traditional dress
  • Saturday, 25 December, 2021
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    Jeju has been transformed from a sleepy tourist destination into an elite education hub

    Hikers rest at a viewing deck at the summit of the Hallasan volcano, or Mount Halla, on Jeju island
  • Friday, 24 December, 2021
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    South Korea’s former president Park Geun-hye receives pardon

    Impeached leader is serving a prison term for corruption and abuse of power

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  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    Covid-19 vaccines
    Embassies blast South Korea over ‘discriminatory’ foreign vaccines policy

    Seoul does not recognise jabs given abroad but officials say restrictions will curb Omicron spread

    A passenger walks past a Covid-19 testing center in Incheon International Airport in South Korea
  • Monday, 29 November, 2021
    South Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korean presidential hopeful plays down reunification with north

    Ruling party’s Lee signals policy shift towards accepting coexistence with Pyongyang

    The Democratic party’s Lee Jae-myung
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