These bears cannot be released into the wild, so sanctuaries are being built.
The 2018 Pyongyang Joint Declaration, signed between then South Korean president, Moon Jae-in, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, may be suspended over North Korean missile testing.
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To boost their attractiveness to tourists and residents alike, in 2020 the towns of Gongju and Buyeo – once Imperial capitals – launched the “Smart Town Challenge” to link online and offline services.
Mourners visit a makeshift memorial near the site of a crowd crush tragedy in Seoul, South Korea, on October 31, 2022.
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Halloween was virtually nonexistent in South Korea until about a decade ago. But commercialization is taking popular holidays to unlikely places across the globe.
A recent barrage of nuclear-capable missile tests and a change in law setting out the conditions for a nuclear strike show that North Korea’s leader is intent on reunification on his terms.
Scott Hardman, University of California, Davis; Daniel Sperling, University of California, Davis, and Gil Tal, University of California, Davis
We’ve heard all the concerns about switching to electric cars before. But California, a market with many similarities, shows why Australia is well placed to accelerate its transition.
South Korean Hyeonmu ballistic missiles on display at the Korean War Memorial Museum in Seoul.
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Inspired by the sensitive, handsome men they see on TV in their favorite K-dramas, they travel abroad in pursuit of a ‘soft’ masculinity they say they can’t find at home.
Newly elected president Yoon Suk-yeol.
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Discipline of Politics & International Relations, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University