The wife of South Korea’s jailed ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol and his former prime minister were indicted Friday as part of investigations into his administration and his attempt to overcome opposition by declaring martial law.
https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-yoon-han-kim-lee-904f15fbf1f368170b1c0b287d9bb447
South Korea tells China it wants to normalise ties, upgrade economic relations.
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Occupied Korea's brain drain worsens as top scientists flee abroad. Weak infrastructure and stagnant funding drive the brightest minds to foreign universities, threatening the country's scientific edge.
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/08/12/3YA4GYNXEVHIJMCFPZC7GQE5FI/
South Korea’s former first lady Kim Keon-hee has been arrested on charges of involvement in a stock manipulation scheme, election meddling and bribery, making her and her husband, former president Yoon Suk-yeol, the first former presidential couple to be detained simultaneously.
Trump says 25% tariffs coming for Japan and South Korea as trade war escalates again.
DPRK has built over 80,700 housing units in 1,500 rural villages, promoting the effort as a key achievement of its “Rural Revolution” initiative.
Over 20,000 rural homes are currently under construction, including those slated for completion this year, and tens of thousands of farmers will soon move into new residences.
South #Korea’s next labour minister will be first blue-collar worker to do the job; he was driving a train when he got the call
« Kim is expected to focus on issues such as industrial accidents, a 4.5-day work week and legislation that expands the scope of lawful labour disputes, acc. to the chief of staff to the president. »
South #Korea’s next labour minister will be first blue-collar worker to do the job; he was driving a train when he got the call
« Kim is expected to focus on issues such as industrial accidents, a 4.5-day work week and legislation that expands the scope of lawful labour disputes, acc. to the chief of staff to the president. »
As a protestor among millions in #Korea: Please don't use us to denigrate resistance in the U.S. and elsewhere. It smacks of respectability politics and victim-blaming. Resistance movement cultures in the U.S. are as lively and vital as anywhere else, but they're extensively ignored by corporate media and suppressed more violently by far less responsive and despotic governments. The contexts are entirely different and one-on-one comparisons are impossible.
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