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News Articles: South Korea

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (right) shakes hands with South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol during the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov. 13, 2022. The two leaders will meet in Tokyo on Thursday in the first bilateral summit between Japan and South Korea in more than a decade, in hopes of overcoming tensions that date back more than 100 years.

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Leaders of Japan and South Korea will meet Thursday to try and mend ties

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida are hoping to overcome historical feuds and domestic politics that have sent relations to their lowest point in decades.

March 15, 2023
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  • Anthony Kuhn
Michelle Yeoh, winner of the Best Actress in a Leading Role award for <em>Everything Everywhere All at Once</em>, attends the Governors Ball during the 95th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on Sunday in Hollywood, Calif.

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  • Asia

A major South Korean broadcaster omitted 'ladies' from Michelle Yeoh's Oscars speech

The broadcaster said it removed the word because of the connotation surrounding "ladies," offering a glimpse into the tense atmosphere surrounding gender discourse in South Korea.

March 14, 2023
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  • Ashley Ahn
South Korean army soldiers ride K-5 self-propelled howitzers in Yeoncheon, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Monday, March 13, 2023.

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  • Asia

The U.S. and South Korea hold drills as North launches missiles from sub

North Korea's missile tests Sunday signal the country likely will conduct provocative weapons testing activities during the U.S.-South Korean drills that are to run for 11 days.

March 13, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, center, leaves after a briefing announcing a plan on Monday to resolve a dispute over compensating people forced to work under Japan's 1910-1945 occupation of Korea, at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea Monday, March 6, 2023.

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  • Asia

U.S. allies South Korea and Japan move closer to resolve forced labor feud

South Korea announced on Monday a plan to compensate victims of forced labor under Japan's colonization through a government foundation with funds from South Korean companies.

March 06, 2023
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  • Se Eun Gong
This photo provided by the North Korean government shows what it says is a launching drill of a cruise missile at an undisclosed location in North Korea on early Thursday.

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  • World

North Korea says it test-fired 4 missiles a day after the U.S. held defense drills

The launch comes a day after the U.S. and South Korea held tabletop exercises simulating a North Korean nuclear attack.

February 24, 2023
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  • Anthony Kuhn
So Seong-uk, left, speaks at a press conference while his partner Kim Yong-min looks on in February 2021 as they file a lawsuit against South Korea's National Health Insurance Service at the Seoul Administrative Court.

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  • Asia

In a first, a South Korean court says same-sex partners should get government benefits

The appeals court ruled Tuesday that So Seong-uk can't be denied spousal benefits by the National Health Insurance Service just because his partner is the same gender as him.

February 21, 2023
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  • Se Eun Gong
A new study looks for associations between changes in alcohol consumption and the risk of dementia, in research that is based on nearly 4 million people in South Korea.

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  • Your Health

Does drinking alcohol affect your dementia risk? We asked a researcher for insights

A large study found that cutting down on alcohol is a good idea. People who quit drinking also had increased risk of dementia, but researchers cautioned about drawing conclusions from that.

February 18, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
A woman pays her respects as she displays a note near the entrance to a female lavatory at Sindang station in Seoul on Sept. 19, 2022. Seoul Metro employee Jeon Joo-hwan was sentenced Tuesday for stabbing his colleague to death in the metro station's women's public toilet the day before a court was set to sentence him on charges of stalking her.

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  • World

A South Korean man is sentenced to 40 years in a stalking and murder case

The man was convicted of killing a female colleague in a Seoul subway station last year, a day before he was to be sentenced on stalking charges. This has led to calls for better protection for women.

February 08, 2023
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  • Se Eun Gong
A fan waits for K-pop band BTS's member Jin to arrive before he enters the army to serve near an army training center in Yeoncheon, South Korea, on Tuesday.

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  • Asia

BTS member Jin begins military duty at a frontline South Korean boot camp

Six other younger BTS members are to join the military in coming years one after another, meaning that the world's biggest boy band must take a hiatus, likely for a few years.

December 13, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Peter Møller, fourth from left, an attorney and co-founder of the Danish Korean Rights Group, attends a Nov. 15 press conference with a group of South Korean adoptees in front of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Seoul, South Korea. Seoul faces growing pressure to reckon with the child export frenzy driven by dictatorships that ruled the country until the 1980s.

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  • Family

More South Korean adoptees who were sent overseas demand probes into their cases

Nearly 400 South Koreans sent as children to families in the West want an inquiry, saying their adoptions were marred by fake documents that changed child identities or falsely declared them orphans.

December 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
South Koreans are becoming a year younger following a set of bills passed by parliament to unify the country's age system.

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  • World

South Koreans are getting a year younger, parliament rules

In a country that uses different age-counting systems, South Koreans will change to an internationally recognized style. They could lose one or two years when the change goes into effect in June.

December 08, 2022
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  • Mary Yang
Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions shout slogans during a rally against the government's labor policy near the National Assembly in Seoul on Saturday.

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  • Asia

Thousands protest in South Korea in support of truckers

Demonstrators marched in South Korea's capital denouncing government attempts to force thousands of striking truckers back to work after they walked out in a dispute over the price of freight.

December 03, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
South Korean actor Oh Young-soo speaks Sept. 21 during a press conference at the Welcome Daehakro Festival 2022 in Seoul, South Korea.

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  • Television

'Squid Game' actor Oh Young-soo is indicted on indecent assault charges

The 78-year-old Emmy nominee is accused of inappropriately touching a woman during a meeting in 2017. A South Korean outlet says Oh denies wrongdoing in the incident.

December 01, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A woman, center, leaves to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office at Ulsan Jungbu police station in Ulsan, South Korea, on Sept. 15, 2022.

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  • Asia

The bodies-in-suitcase suspect appears in a New Zealand court

A woman who was extradited from South Korea this week after the bodies of her two children were found in abandoned suitcases made her first court appearance in New Zealand on Wednesday.

November 30, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In this file photo provided by South Korea Defense Ministry, U.S. Air Force B-1B bombers, F-35B stealth fighter jets and South Korean F-15K fighter jets fly over the Korean Peninsula during joint drills on Sept. 18, 2017.

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  • Asia

North Korea launches four more missiles as U.S. flies bombers over South

North Korea launched four ballistic missiles into the sea, as the U.S sent two bombers over South Korea in a dueling display of military might that underscored rising tensions in the region.

November 05, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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