List of South Korea articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Currency Devaluation Shows the High Cost of China’s Soft Power
Beijing has been spending hundreds of billions of dollars to buy friends and influence its neighbors. Weakening the value of the yuan shows that the bill is coming due — and China may not be able to pay it.
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GettyImages-162246801_960 When a Boy’s Life Is Worth More Than His Sister’s
More societies around the world are letting girls die so boys can thrive. It’s not just cruel, it's a recipe for disaster.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How North Korea’s Marchers for Peace Became Fellow Travelers
The Nobel Laureates and prominent activists who recently crossed into North Korea showed a shocking lack of sympathy for the North Korean people.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 NightMERS
Why has South Korea bungled its response to the latest disease outbreak so badly?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Still Cozy After All These Years
Beijing's support for Pyongyang during the Korean War tells us why it still backs Kim today.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Japan Alone Cannot Guard or Sustain Peace’
Foreign Policy talks to Japan’s former defense minister about reinterpreting the country's constitution to counter China’s peaceful rise.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Pentagon Anthrax Scandal Is Getting Worse by the Day
U.S. Defense Department officials said on Wednesday that a total of 51 laboratories in 17 states, the District of Columbia, and three foreign countries have received potentially dangerous samples of anthrax from a U.S. Army lab in Dugway, Utah.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Pentagon Stops Anthrax Shipments as Scandal Grows
More shipments of anthrax identified by the Pentagon.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 President Ban Ki-moon? U.N. Secretary-General Pivots Back to Asia.
Ban Ki-moon says he is not interested in running for the South Korean presidency. The polls say he is the front-runner.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Raindrops Keep Falling On My Nuclear Umbrella
By failing to help South Korea and Japan with small threats, the United States is casting doubts on its biggest commitment in the region.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Smog and the Social Contract
Rising incomes are pretty good at buying quiescence. But what causes people to say: “You can’t buy us off this cheaply”?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Shinzo Abe’s Sorry Apology
Japan's prime minister needs to actually apologize for his country’s crimes.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 South Korea passing France economically
As the article notes, that is pretty impressive: “It’s difficult to overstate what remarkable accomplishment this is. In the aftermath of the Korean war, South Korea was one of the poorest nations on earth. Its income per capita at that point was on par with some of the most impoverished nations of sub-Saharan Africa. It was resource-poor, with hardly any mineral wealth to speak of.”
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Korea Plays Nice at Trilateral Meeting With Japan and U.S.
Despite repeated attempts by reporters to bait him into dredging up lingering resentments against Japan, a senior South Korean diplomat bit his tongue, downplaying 70-year-old tensions at a trilateral meeting in Washington.
