“The Last 33 Years of Chun Doo-hwan: Why He Never Yielded”By Jeong Ah-eun SidewaysNot long ago, people were talking about the crisis of Korean cinema during the COVID-19 pandemic, but now the film “12
1. Controversy over removal of Hong Beom-do’s bust and rewriting of historyThe controversy over the relocation of independence fighter Hong Beom-do’s bust at the Korea Military Academy was an example
The proportion of young South Koreans who own their own home reached a five-year low of 13.2% amid rising housing prices, with a 7.1-point decline in four years for the percentage of home-owning newly
Hanshin University’s forcible ejection of 22 international students who were enrolled the school’s Korean language institute to their home country of Uzbekistan has been met with shock and outrage.The
On Friday, the Hankyoreh sat down with MIT economics professors Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee in Seoul’s Myeongdong area for an interview. The two were jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in
By Moon Chung-in, James Laney Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University The South Korean public’s evaluation of President Yoon Suk-yeol’s governance has been harsh. The proportion of people who rat
By Pak Noja (Vladimir Tikhonov), professor of Korean studies at the University of OsloKorea is one of several dozen countries around the world in which immigration and nationality procedures for forei
By Nam Jong-young, environmental writerIn 2022, Pakistan suffered devastating floods, submerging one-third of the country under water. Rainfall two to three times the yearly average and left some 30 m
A 22-year-old Korean university student surnamed Park who has long hoped to get a job abroad was recently flabbergasted by a post about an internship at the US Embassy in South Korea. The six-month in
South Korea’s Supreme Court has issued yet another ruling holding Japanese companies responsible for compensating Koreans conscripted for forced labor during Japan’s colonial occupation of Korea. This
