South Korea’s history helps explain its culture. In less than 100 years, the East Asian nation broke free from Japanese occupation, survived conflict with North Korea and transformed its ...

South Korea’s history helps explain its culture. In less than 100 years, the East Asian nation broke free from Japanese occupation, survived conflict with North Korea, and transformed its ...

What was it about South Korea that could produce such a robust protest culture? I reached out to Namhee Lee, a UCLA professor of modern Korean history, to learn more. What was your initial ...

South Korea’s history helps explain its culture. In less than 100 years, the East Asian nation broke free from Japanese occupation, survived conflict with North Korea, and transformed its ...

When South Korea's president, Yoon Suk Yeol, attempted to institute martial law in early December, the public responded with ...

Yet, while these recent developments are historic, they are just the latest chapter in South Korea’s scandal-ridden presidential history. Since the country’s founding after World War II ...

It had been quite quiet for the team at Green Cross until early February when a patient - now known in South Korea as "patient 31" - with no known history of travel and no contact with previous ...

The more common sight now is of half-empty pubs and bars along the neon-lit alley and streets, a telling sign of a sharp shift in South Korea's once-notorious drinking culture. That change has ...

In response to martial law, South Korean citizens mobilised en masse, transforming urban centres into arenas of dissent characterised by inventive protest strategies and cultural symbolism.

The past two weeks in South Korean politics have featured enough ... from the start of their term because of elements in Korean culture that promote a zero-sum view of politics.