SEOUL — A report that the Trump administration is considering pulling out thousands of its military personnel stationed in South Korea has sent waves of anxiety rippling through the country, which is facing a snap presidential election next month. Quoting unnamed defense […]
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SEOUL — The winner of South Korea’s upcoming presidential election will be faced with the task of uniting a country riven by political acrimony since the impeachment of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who sparked national outrage after declaring martial law in
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SEOUL — In South Korea, the Trump administration’s 25% tariff on imported cars has sent local automakers Hyundai and Kia scrambling to protect one of the country’s most valuable exports. But General Motors, which last year shipped 418,782 units from its factories
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SEOUL — As South Koreans prepare to elect a successor to ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol, a court ruling against front-runner Lee Jae-myung has thrust the country — which has been under interim leadership for the last five months —
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South Korean Prime Minister Han Duck-soo was reinstated as acting president on Monday after the country’s Constitutional Court dismissed the impeachment motion passed by the National Assembly late last year. Han was handed the reins to the country after lawmakers
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SEOUL — A revelation that the U.S. Department of Energy has designated South Korea as a “sensitive country” — a label reserved for nations deemed to pose a threat to national security or nuclear nonproliferation — has left South Korean officials scrambling
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SEOUL — In his speech to Congress on Tuesday, President Trump said that South Korea, alongside other countries such as Japan, wanted to invest “trillions of dollars each” in a $44-billion liquefied natural gas pipeline in Alaska that he has touted since
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SEOUL — Several times a week, Washington-based immigration attorney Chun Jong-Joon gets a phone call from yet another flabbergasted Korean American. All have made the same discovery: They or their U.S.-born children hold South Korean citizenship and cannot give it up. He
SEOUL — Kim Hyeong-bae, a South Korean linguist, had a problem: how to translate the word “deepfake” into Korean. A senior researcher at the National Institute of Korean Language, a government regulator, Kim works in the public language department. His job is
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SEOUL — South Korean lawmakers voted Saturday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose short-lived declaration of martial law this month upended the democratic order and sparked a crescendoing campaign for his ouster. His presidential powers will formally be suspended once
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