Squid Game is back. Netflix’s most popular show ever, a dystopian South Korean vision of divided society, premieres its highly-anticipated second season on Monday as Seoul battles real-life policial chaos. The show’s return comes just days after South Korea’s President […]
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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has staggered from one crisis to another since winning power but he topped it all this week by declaring martial law and sending troops and helicopters to parliament. The plunge back to South Korea’s
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Gunshots, screams, eerie laughter: South Korea’s border island Ganghwa is being bombarded nightly with blood-curdling sounds, part of a new campaign by the nuclear-armed North that is driving residents to despair. Before it started, 56-year-old Kim Yun-suk fell asleep to
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Aspiring South Korean writer On Ji-goo never considered herself a feminist but changed her mind after being physically attacked by a man for having short hair. “I know you are a feminist,” her attacker yelled as he beat her up
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North Korea staged GPS jamming attacks on Friday and Saturday, an operation that was affecting several ships and dozens of civilian aircraft in South Korea, Seoul’s military said. The jamming allegations come about a week after the North test-fired what
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North Korea’s decision to deploy thousands of soldiers to Ukraine’s front lines cements Pyongyang’s contentious military alliance with Moscow, experts told AFP, and pulls Russia deeper into Korean peninsula security. About 1,500 North Korean special forces soldiers are already in
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Slated for demolition, the graffiti-covered building close to the inter-Korean border was once a “monkey house”, a clinic for sex workers forced to serve US soldiers protecting Seoul from North Korea. Activists, including women who were forced into gruesome treatments
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Busan, South Korea – Kiyoshi Kurosawa, cinema’s “master of horror” and recipient of the Busan International Film Festival’s Filmmaker of the Year Award, said on Thursday he’d like to see more Japanese artists explore genre cinema. Celebrated Asian filmmakers including
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