Biden’s Asia trip to show ‘in living colour’ that US can take on China and Russia

Biden’s Asia trip to show ‘in living colour’ that US can take on China and Russia

The trip will underscore that Russia’s faltering invasion of Ukraine should give Beijing pause about its own saber-rattling in the Pacific.

  • byAamer Madhani andJosh Boak

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Tattoos,illegal in South Korea,thrive underground

Tattoos,illegal in South Korea,thrive underground

Tattoo artists,long treated as criminals for their work,say that it is time to end the stigma against their business.

  • byChristine Chung
Booming career,first Oscar at 73:Is Youn Yuh-jung the patron saint of late starters?

Booming career,first Oscar at 73:Is Youn Yuh-jung the patron saint of late starters?

She might be a late bloomer but South Korean actor Youn Yuh-jung has made a big impact.

  • byStephanie Bunbury
Kim’s sister threatens South Korea with nuclear retaliation

Kim’s sister threatens South Korea with nuclear retaliation

Kim Jong-un’s influential sister has issued two threats in 48 hours,following a test missile launch by the South last week.

  • byJeong-Ho Lee
South Korea test-fires rocket,accuses North Korea of fakery

South Korea test-fires rocket,accuses North Korea of fakery

South Korea’s military said North Korea’s largest missile test yet used an older,smaller intercontinental ballistic missile.

  • byHyonhee Shin andJosh Smith
‘It’s biased towards women’:the angry young men on the front line of Korea’s battle of the sexes

‘It’s biased towards women’:the angry young men on the front line of Korea’s battle of the sexes

Anti-feminists have called women “kimchi girls” – slang that suggests their boyfriends pay for them. Older women have been labelled “mum-roaches”.

  • byEryk Bagshaw andSean Na
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North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile in its likely largest test ever

North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile in its likely largest test ever

It represents a major escalation of North Korea’s development of weapons potentially able to deliver nuclear warheads anywhere in the US.

  • byJosh Smith
This Japanese man shows up and ‘does nothing’. He’s made a living out of it

This Japanese man shows up and ‘does nothing’. He’s made a living out of it

Nicknamed “Rental-san”,Shoji Morimoto has built a cult following by offering himself as a warm body who can simply be there.

  • byMichelle Ye Hee Lee andJulia Mio Inuma
South Korea has its first populist President,a swashbuckler ready to take on Beijing

South Korea has its first populist President,a swashbuckler ready to take on Beijing

The ingredients that helped make Donald Trump president of the United States just made Yoon Suk-yeol the next leader of the Asian powerhouse economy.

  • byEryk Bagshaw
Yoon Suk-yeol elected South Korea’s next President

Yoon Suk-yeol elected South Korea’s next President

Personal attacks obscured otherwise substantial policy differences in a campaign that revealed a populace bitterly divided about the best way forward.

  • byEryk Bagshaw andSean Na
Virus success story South Korea forced to revisit COVID approach

Virus success story South Korea forced to revisit COVID approach

Until last year,South Korea had never had reached 8000 new cases a day. But with Omicron,the daily caseload soared to 109,831 on Friday.

  • byChoe Sang-Hun