The weather in South Korea on April 16, 2024 was exceptionally sunny, not unlike that fateful day exactly 10 years ago when the Sewol ferry carrying 476 passengers, including 325 students from Danwon High School, tragically sank off the country's southwestern coast. But for the families of the
The edifice of sanctions painstakingly erected to thwart North Korea's nuclear ambitions is at risk of crumbling. In late October, Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution to extend the mandate of a panel of experts that plays an integral role in monitoring and reporting on the enforcement
In 2023, a seismic population milestone passed with little fanfare. For the first time in six years, the number of domestic Koreans dipped below 50 million, registering at 49.85 million. This is no mere demographic blip, but a harbinger of epochal change as the dual forces of record low
In a stunning rebuke of President Yoon Seok-yeol's leadership, South Korean voters have handed the main opposition Democratic Party and its allies an overwhelming majority in the National Assembly, plunging the conservative president into the biggest political crisis of his tenure just two years into his five-year term.