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Companies and politicians try new strategies to encourage workers to start families
Physicians complain of overwork and low pay as healthcare system faces looming demographic crisis
Kim Jong Un seeks to strengthen ties with Beijing and Russia while maintaining coronavirus-era controls
Cheaper panels and increasing domestic assembly offer an alternative to regime’s dilapidated electricity grid
After she fled to South Korea, Kim Joo Kyung couldn’t stop thinking about her first love. She decided to try to find him
Bai Houshan and his company Ronbay have ambitious expansion plans for key battery component
The gender pay gap is the worst among OECD countries for the 26th year in a row
Raids carried out as new conservative government in Seoul accuses predecessor of trying to appease Pyongyang
Countries offer contrasting versions of missile defence policy as tensions increase
Relationship with fellow US ally Japan has been strained by legacy of colonial occupation
Fever has spread ‘explosively’ as experts warn about potential impact on unvaccinated nation
Voters lament negative tone of contest as country grapples with economic and social pressures
More than half of Koreans believe their country’s biggest trading partner is ‘close to evil’
Adult children are helping their parents find matches to combat elderly poverty and suicide
Human Rights Watch says government inaction has led to ‘pervasive’ discrimination against group
Pyongyang’s actions ‘deeply troubling’, says UN agency
Regional partners reject claims that chaotic withdrawal from Kabul has shaken defence ties
Drinking alone buoys alcohol brands but stokes anxiety over depression and suicide
Indonesia’s coronavirus crisis deepens as lockdowns are reinstated from Seoul to Sydney
Kim Jong Un is expected to lean on hacking army as Covid pandemic piles on pressure
Using a new database, activists are tracing the many thousands of people who have gone missing inside the ‘hermit kingdom’. Can they succeed?
Tensions simmer between neighbours as Biden urges united regional response to China
Missiles launched as Washington struggles to engage with Pyongyang
Leader Kim Jong Un’s ideology of self-reliance risks causing food shortages and economic collapse
Seoul court’s fines reignite tensions as Biden looks for greater co-operation between Asian allies
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