‘Get on it AY-sep!’ Foreign words have invaded Korea. The government is fighting back
How do you say "deepfake," "ASAP" and "digital" in Korean? The fight to keep foreign words from diluting the language ...
New York Magazine15d
All the Best Korean-Beauty Products (That We’ve Written About on the Strategist)
Read more here. In 2015, Charlotte Cho, the founder of Soko Glam, told our colleagues at the Cut that Korea’s beauty products were emerging as one of the country’s top exports. Since then ...
Anadolu Ajansi20d
S.Korean court rejects impeached president’s objection to arrest warrant
A South Korea court on Sunday rejected President Yoon Suk Yeol’s objections to an order to detain him, according to local media. A local court in the capital Seoul rejected objections raised by ...
CBS News23d
Impeached South Korean president detained over martial law declaration
Seoul, South Korea — South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained in a massive law enforcement operation at the presidential compound Wednesday, defiantly insisting the anti ...
The Washington Post23d
South Korea holds its president in solitary with cold cereal, no frills
SEOUL — South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol woke up Thursday morning in a solitary cell at the Seoul Detention Center. He was served a breakfast of cereal, boiled eggs, nuts and milk — a far ...
NDTV23d
North Korean Troops "Blowing Themselves Up" To Avoid Capture In Ukraine
Among them, they found one soldier was still alive. But as Ukrainian soldiers approached him, the lone North Korean detonated his own grenade, blowing himself up to avoid being captured ...
Wall Street Journal23d
South Korea Arrests President on Second Attempt. It Took 1,000 Police.
SEOUL—The arrest of impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol ends a dayslong standoff with the country’s investigators. But the move to detain him has proved deeply divisive in a country ...
Time24d
South Korea Finally Arrests Impeached President Yoon Suk-Yeol for Insurrection
Early on Wednesday morning, hundreds of investigators finally entered the fortified compound in Seoul where South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol had been holed up since his mid-December ...
The Independent24d
Everything we know about North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine
The soldier with the ID card purportedly said he was born in 2005 and was serving in the North Korean military as a rifleman since 2021. The other prisoner answered his interrogators in writing ...
The Economist24d
What North Korea gains by sending troops to fight for Russia
These days Russia and North Korea are writing a new battlefield history together. North Korea has dispatched some 12,000 troops to fight in Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine. The soldiers are ...
The Economist24d
After the president’s arrest, what next for South Korea?
Your browser does not support the <audio> element. THE PRESIDENCY of South Korea can be a treacherous job. Past office-holders have been impeached and even ...
The Washington Post24d
South Korea’s President Yoon has been detained. Here’s what to know.
SEOUL — Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was detained Wednesday and taken away by law enforcement officials for questioning, after a dramatic predawn police raid involving ...