The National Human Rights Commission of Korea will investigate a scandal at Hanshin University in which Uzbek students at its Korean language academy say they were coerced into returning home early.Th
The Hankyoreh’s Kim Bong-gyu was selected as the Journalists Association of Korea’s Journalist of the Month in the photojournalism category on Thursday.Kim, a senior staff writer for the Hankyoreh, wa
A US news outlet has suggested that former US President Donald Trump is considering a new approach to North Korea if he returns to office, one that would entail recognizing it as a nuclear weapons sta
“Secret Playlist” is a Japanese drama. In fact, it debuted as an original series on Hulu Japan, a streaming service, on Nov. 18.But most of the names in the ending credits are Korean. The screenwriter
Chinese and Russian military planes briefly entered the Korean air defense identification zone (KADIZ) in the East Sea on Thursday, spurring South Korea to scramble fighter jets in response.The planes
“It feels like there’s going to be a spy incident based on blanket accusations against Koreans in Japan. The president keeps emphasizing ideology, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.”The South Kor
After hitting its peak in 2020, the South Korean population is forecast to drop to 36 million in 50 years. Chronically low birth rates are expected to drop the total fertility rate to below the previo
An analysis has shown that South Korea’s demographic structure has entered a phase in which it will lower the country’s per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate by an average of 1.13 percen
By John Eperjesi, professor of literature at Kyung Hee UniversityOne of the worst civilian massacres in 20th-century Asian history took place on Jeju Island at the dawn of the Cold War. On this “haunt
