Tag: South Korea

In 1999, a Beijing newspaper published the first known use of the word hallyu, or Korean Wave, describing the emerging popularity of Korean cultural products abroad. Prior to that time, ...

Just days before his death, Charlie Kirk was on a speaking tour in Asia—stopping in South Korea and Japan. At Build Up Korea 2025 in Seoul, under elaborate pyrotechnics, he told a ...

South Korean scientists have re-engineered a basic arts and crafts glue gun to print bones onto fractured limbs—literally. That little flimsy plastic gun you keep in your arts and crafts ...

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick dismissed complaints by Korean companies about their workers getting caught at jobs in the United States without work permits. “I called up the Koreans, I said, ...

For all of its efforts to drive a domestic manufacturing boom in key industries, the United States remains heavily reliant on Asian expertise to build batteries, the powerful technologies that ...

The U.S. government’s raid on a Hyundai battery plant for electric cars in Ellabell, Georgia, last week was the economic policy equivalent of a cluster bomb, one of the dumbest ...

This month, we’re getting to know the employees of a fictional North American nail salon and a Korean research center for haunted objects. Pick a Color: A Novel Souvankham Thammavongsa ...

Although there are striking similarities between the geopolitics of the Indian subcontinent and the Korean Peninsula, the international relations community rarely pays attention to their parallel trajectories. Recent events provide ...

South Korea’s central bank, the Bank of Korea (BOK), estimated on Friday that North Korea’s economy grew by 3.7 percent in 2024, its fastest rate of growth in eight years. ...

Since Lee Jae-myung won South Korea’s presidential election on June 3, the Korean stock market has been on a tear. On June 2, the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI)—the ...