SEOUL — Who is running South Korea? In the week since President Yoon Suk Yeol briefly declared martial law, setting off widespread calls for his removal from office, that question has become a national puzzle. Yoon hasn’t appeared in public since […]
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SEOUL — South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, who stunned the world this week by declaring martial law, has narrowly avoided being impeached, as his party’s lawmakers boycotted the parliamentary vote on his ouster Saturday. The motion by opposition lawmakers accused him
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SEOUL — The morning after South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol declared martial law — then stood down — his political future was swiftly unraveling. Opposition lawmakers have filed insurrection charges against Yoon and are also moving to impeach him. Some in
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SEOUL — What on earth to do about all the plastic polluting the oceans, the food supply, even our bodies? That is the question that the delegates from 175 countries are trying to answer this week in Busan, South Korea, where
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SEOUL — The election of Donald Trump has sparked a surge of interest in the United States in South Korea’s 4B movement, a radical feminist crusade that preaches the four B’s: bi-hon (no marriage), bi-yeonae (no dating), bi-sekseu (no sex)
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YANGJU, South Korea — In the late 1970s, before he became a television star and a household name in South Korea, Im Chae-moo was working as an extra when he had an epiphany. Im Chae-moo’s breakout role in a popular soap
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SEOUL — Hours after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, a South Korean political analyst named Cheong Seong-chang sent an email to his 1,400 subscribers noting what he considered a silver lining in the news that had unsettled so many
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OSHU, Japan — Seems Hair and Spa in Oshu, a city in northern Japan, is crammed full with Dodgers memorabilia, but owner Hironobu Kanno is adamant that he isn’t really a Dodgers fan. It was just past 9 a.m. and Kanno,
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OSHU, Japan — It was moments before Game 3 was set to begin, and the city where Shohei Ohtani was born breathed a collective sigh of relief. “I almost cried when I saw the injury,” 50-year-old resident Ayako Oyama said, referring
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SEOUL — The latest government plan in South Korea to encourage couples to have more children and prevent a devastating population decline: low-wage immigrant nannies. In August, the Seoul government launched a program matching 100 Filipino nannies with 169 households that
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