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, by RASHID Raphael
South Korea presents a chilling glimpse into the future of gender politics under late-stage capitalism. Despite leading the world in women’s university education, this hyperconnected society maintains the OECD’s worst gender pay gap whilst digital misogyny flourishes unchecked. The consequences (…)
, by RASHID Raphael
Under South Korea’s ‘peak wage’ system, salaries of older workers are cut each year as they reach retirement age.
Insurance worker G Young Soo started working at his company at 23, and spent more than three decades climbing the ranks to become a branch director. Now approaching his 60th (…)
, by WON Youngsu
Democratic Party (DP) candidate Lee Jae-myung defeated his main rival, Kim Moon-soo from the ruling conservative right People Power Party (PPP), in South Korea’s June 3 presidential vote.
Lee’s victory marks the official end of the political crisis that erupted with former PPP president Yoon (…)
, by KOO Youngeun
In the wake of the Korean War, hundreds of thousands of children were sent abroad.
Kim Tak-un was four years old when he was adopted by a Swedish family in 1974. Originally from South Korea, Tak-un had lived with his single father, a labourer who moved frequently for work. One day in the (…)
, by ROBERT Michael
South Korea goes to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new president after some tumultuous months following the attempted coup by the right-wing president Yoon Suk-yeol to arrest opposition leaders and close down parliament, where Yoon did not have a majority. Eventually, Yoon was impeached and (…)
, by WON Youngsu
South Korea’s Constitutional Court finally ratified former president Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment on April 4, 111 days after parliament voted to remove him for his attempted December 3 self-coup. Explaining the judges’ unanimous decision, acting president of the bench Moon Hyung-bae said Yoon’s (…)
A pro-Yoon fringe movement, stoked by right-wing YouTubers, has become both more energised and extreme
Pained cries rang out in front of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s official residence on Friday, as judges of the Constitutional Court judges confirmed his impeachment.
“I (…)
, by McCURRY Justin
The court said Yoon had ‘committed a grave betrayal of the trust of the people’ over his ill-fated declaration of martial law in December
Moment South Korean court removed Yoon Suk Yeol from presidency – video
South Korea’s suspended president, Yoon Suk Yeol, has been removed from office (…)
, by McCURRY Justin
Officials point to ultra-dry conditions as death toll reaches 27 and fires threaten Unesco heritage sites
Authorities in South Korea are battling wildfires that have doubled in size in a day in the country’s worst ever natural fire disaster.
At least 27 people have died and hundreds of (…)
, by HALL David
Plenty of North Koreans drink, but their leader has now branded excessive alcohol consumption a breach of party discipline.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un recently chaired a meeting of the Korean Worker’s Party Secretariat, the body responsible for prescribing correct behaviour and ensuring (…)
, by HONG Myungkyo
Hong Myungkyo highlights the central role working-class and social movements played in thwarting South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol’s attempted coup in December 2024 and considers new openings for the Left.
From stopping martial law to the articles of impeachment
On December 3, 2024, at (…)
, by MATHERS Jennifer
North Korea is believed to be preparing to send another group of soldiers to come to Vladimir Putin’s aid in the war in Ukraine, despite heavy combat losses already suffered by troops from the east Asian country.
When Ukrainian forces crossed the border into the Kursk region of Russia in (…)
, by Kap Seol
South Korea’s right-wing president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has finally been arrested after his attempt to stage a coup. But Yoon’s supporters are still mobilizing aggressively, hoping that Donald Trump will take their side over false claims of electoral fraud.
On January 15, law enforcement officials (…)
, by LEE Heejo
IBK Industrial Bank of Korea’s labor union, which is on strike over wage hikes, is raising its voice, asking “to lift IBK from other public institutions.” This is because the Industrial Bank of Korea can adjust employees’ wages without being controlled by the government only when they are (…)
, by Korea Times
Unionized workers of Industrial Bank of Korea, one of the key policy lenders in Korea, staged a strike Friday for a hike in wages and other benefits.
Some 3,200 workers joined the strike, slightly over 50 percent of the staff at branches nationwide, according to the labor union.
The policy (…)
, by CLARK Caitlyn
In the nail-biting new season of Netflix’s hit series Squid Game, players’ desperate circumstances push them to make fatally risky bets on individual success even when collective action might save them.
If the debut season of the Korean Netflix series Squid Game laid bare the ails of modern (…)
, par WALKER Yoon
On Friday morning, officials abandoned an attempt to detain South Korea’s embattled president, throwing the country deeper into chaos.
It was a tumultuous end to 2024 for South Korea. On December 14, the country’s president, Yoon Suk Yeol, was impeached over his short-lived declaration of (…)
, by WON Youngsu
North Korea is an enigma in many senses of the word, but leader Kim Jong Un’s decision to send troops to fight in Russia’s war on Ukraine shocked many in South Korea and internationally. Many are asking why Kim chose to take North Korea down this disastrous and dead-end path? The answer lies in (…)
, by CARVALHAES Ana C., DUTRA Israel
A military coup attempt (or self-coup, as some prefer) by an elected and unpopular president triggered, at the beginning of this month in the distant yet familiar South Korea, a mass mobilisation led by young people aged 20 to 30, to the sound of a hit by a female K-Pop group. And for now, it (…)
, by WON Youngsu
Eleven historic days of popular struggle between President Yoon Suk-yeol’s failed self-coup on December 3 and his impeachment on December 14 sealed Yoon’s fate. Yoon’s impeachment represents a tremendous triumph of people power amid a slow-motion political suicide committed by reactionary (…)
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