List of South Korea articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 In Korean Democracy, the People Are a Wrathful God
Koreans demanded, and received, the impeachment of their president. But there's a thin line between the collective will and mob rule.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Refugees Might Be the New Administration’s Best Friends on North Korea Strategy
Supporting refugees is a concrete action Washington can take to break the Kim regime’s control over society and bring all North Koreans closer to freedom.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Korea Picked a Tranquil Time to Impeach Its President
Park Geun-hye may have finally been done in by corruption and a cult.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Koreans Have Mastered the Art of the Protest
South Korean President Park Geun-hye is on the brink of resignation — but her quitting won’t stop the waves of anger on the streets.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Myth of Chaebol Exceptionalism
Everyone wants to blame South Korea’s incestuous business culture for the recent failures of its massive conglomerates. But that’s not the reason they’re in a funk.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Korea’s Nostalgia for Dictatorship Has (Mostly) Predictable Results
How fond memories of authoritarianism fueled the democratic rise of a deluded and corrupt president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Koreans Really Hate Their President’s Secret Shamanistic-Evangelical Advisor
Whether that will result in impeachment is another question.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Beijing Tells Seoul to Stay Calm and Carry On, After Chinese Fishermen Sink a South Korean Coast Guard Boat
An outraged South Korea threatens to use force unless China restrains its fishermen in the Yellow Sea.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Is How North Korea Will Get Its Nukes Past American Missile Defense Systems
Pyongyang's missiles just keep getting better.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Anxiety in the Air, World Leaders Converge on China
Audiences in Seoul, Moscow, and Beijing will be watching the G20 with baited breath.
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This undated picture released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on August 25, 2016 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) waving as he inspects a test-fire of strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile at an undisclosed location. / AFP / KCNA / KNS / South Korea OUT / REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT / SOUTH KOREA OUT ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS THIS PICTURE WAS MADE AVAILABLE BY A THIRD PARTY. AFP CAN NOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE AUTHENTICITY, LOCATION, DATE AND CONTENT OF THIS IMAGE. THIS PHOTO IS DISTRIBUTED EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY AFP. / (Photo credit should read KNS/AFP/Getty Images) North Korean Official Executed for Having Bad Posture and Sleeping During Meetings
On Wednesday, South Korean officials announced that last month, a North Korean firing squad shot and killed Kim Yong-Jin, a vice premier for education, for falling asleep.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Trump Is Ready to Say ‘You’re Fired’ to NATO
From Tokyo to Tallinn, Trump has alarmed allies by saying the United States will leave them to defend themselves unless the governments “reimburse” Washington for defense costs.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How to Explain Xi Jinping’s Mounting Foreign-Policy Failures
Yet The Hague's decision was only the latest in a series of diplomatic setbacks for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is South Korea Regressing Into a Dictatorship?
President Park Geun-hye is squelching protests, suing journalists, and jailing opposition politicians.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tourism Is Booming in the Only Town in South Korea With Pokémon Go
South Korea hasn't allowed Pokémon Go to be released quite yet. But through what appears to be a glitch, one town got lucky.
