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Claire Lee

International Business Times

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South Korean Blockbuster 'JSA' Strikes A Chord 25 Years On

Twenty-five years ago, director Park Chan-wook risked jail to make a movie about friendship between North and South Korean soldiers, striking box...

20.02.2025 9

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Claire Lee

Trump Tariffs Loom Large In South Korea's 'Steel City'

Smoke billows from chimneys as factories churn in South Korea's steelmaking heartland, now under threat from Washington's swingeing new tariffs on the...

18.02.2025 10

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Claire Lee

OpenAI Chief Altman Signs Deal With South Korea's Kakao After DeepSeek Upset

OpenAI chief Sam Altman signed a deal with tech giant Kakao in South Korea on Tuesday as the US firm seeks new alliances after Chinese rival DeepSeek...

05.02.2025 20

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S. Korea's Impeached President Attends Court To Fight Detention Extension

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol attended court for the first time on Saturday to fight a request by investigators to extend his...

20.01.2025 8

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S. Korea's Yoon: From Rising Star To Historic Arrest

South Korea's Yoon Suk Yeol rose from star prosecutor to the presidency in just a few years, but after a series of scandals and a bungled martial law...

16.01.2025 10

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Clashes As S. Korean Investigators Attempt To Arrest President Yoon

South Korean investigators tried to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday over his failed martial law bid, using ladders to enter his...

16.01.2025 10

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North Korea Fires Short-range Ballistic Missiles Before Trump Return

North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles into the sea Tuesday, according to Seoul's military, in what experts said could be a message...

15.01.2025 6

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Hundreds Rally For South Korea's Yoon As New Arrest Bid Beckons

Hundreds of supporters of South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol rallied outside his home on Wednesday in a bid to protect him as...

09.01.2025 7

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South Korea Investigators Get New Warrant To Arrest President Yoon

South Korean anti-graft investigators secured a new court-ordered arrest warrant Tuesday for impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, whose failed...

08.01.2025 9

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Claire Lee

South Korea's Political Crisis: What Could Happen Next?

South Korean investigators attempted to arrest impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol at his residence Friday over a failed martial law bid but were...

05.01.2025 5

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Claire Lee

South Korea's Impeached President Resists Arrest Over Martial Law Bid

Impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol remained defiantly inside his residence resisting arrest for a third day on Thursday, after vowing to...

03.01.2025 3

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The Real-life Violence That Inspired South Korea's 'Squid Game'

A factory turned into a battlefield, riot police armed with tasers and an activist who spent 100 days atop a chimney -- the unrest that inspired...

25.12.2024 6

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South Korean Police Blocked From Raid On President's Office

South Korean police said Wednesday that security guards were blocking a raid on President Yoon Suk Yeol's offices to investigate his brief...

12.12.2024 4

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Claire Lee

South Korea Slaps Travel Bans On More Top Officials

South Korean authorities banned more top officials from leaving the country Tuesday, in the wake of President Yoon Suk Yeol's bungled attempt to...

11.12.2024 4

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S. Korea Netflix Mega Hit 'Squid Game' Premieres In Seoul After Martial Law

Squid Game is back. Netflix's most popular show ever, a dystopian South Korean vision of divided society, premieres its highly-anticipated second...

09.12.2024 4

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Claire Lee

Crisis To Brink Of Impeachment: South Korea's Isolated President

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has staggered from one crisis to another since winning power but he topped it all this week by declaring...

08.12.2024 5

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Claire Lee

South Korea President Apologises But Doesn't Resign Over Martial Law Fiasco

South Korea's embattled President Yoon Suk Yeol apologised but stopped short of resigning Saturday over his declaration of martial law, with a vote...

08.12.2024 5

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Claire Lee

South Korean Ruling Party Says 'Dangerous' President Must Go

South Korea's ruling party chief demanded Friday that President Yoon Suk Yeol be removed from office after his abortive attempt to impose martial...

06.12.2024 6

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Claire Lee

N. Korea's Latest Weapon? Bombarding South With Noise

Gunshots, screams, eerie laughter: South Korea's border island Ganghwa is being bombarded nightly with blood-curdling sounds, part of a new...

20.11.2024 2

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Short Cut To Feminism: How An Assault Changed Korean Woman's Outlook

Aspiring South Korean writer On Ji-goo never considered herself a feminist but changed her mind after being physically attacked by a man for having...

12.11.2024 4

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Claire Lee

North Korea Blows Up Roads, Rails To South

North Korea blew up sections of the deeply symbolic roads and railways connecting it to the South on Tuesday, Seoul's military said, adding it had...

15.10.2024 2

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Claire Lee

Former South Korea Clinic For US 'Comfort Women' To Be Demolished

Slated for demolition, the graffiti-covered building close to the inter-Korean border was once a "monkey house", a clinic for sex workers forced to...

08.10.2024 1

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Claire Lee

Netflix War Epic To Open Asia's Largest Film Festival

A Netflix period war drama produced by South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook will open Asia's largest film festival Wednesday, the first time a...

02.10.2024 3

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Claire Lee

As Climate Warms, S. Korea Fights New Border Threat: Malarial Mosquitoes

Near the heavily fortified border that divides North and South Korea, a monitoring device is working 24-7 -- not tracking missiles or troop...

27.08.2024 2

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Claire Lee