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South Korea news
News for readers in South Korea, in one-minute summaries with a link to the original reporting.
Seoul furious as Zelensky reveals secret North Korean prisoner transfer
Ukraine's president announced the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea at the UN, breaking what Seoul says was a confidentiality agreement and triggering a diplomatic row.
6 cards 1m 50sPete Doherty karaoke cover in South Korea
Pete Doherty sings Lily Allen’s 'Smile' at South Korean karaoke.
6 cards 1mSouth Korea flag mishap at Asian Games 2026
South Korea's flag stuck during Asian Games 2026 football victory ceremony sparks fan boos.
6 cards 1m 20sNorth Korea denies mine blast wounded South Korean soldiers
Pyongyang rejects Seoul's accusation that North Korean mines caused an explosion that injured two South Korean soldiers in the DMZ.
6 cards 1m 40sSaudi pipeline shutdown squeezes Asia's oil supply
The closure of Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline threatens crude supplies to Asia's four largest importers, with South Korea most exposed.
7 cards 2mSouth Korea protests Asian Games warlord display
South Korea objects to Japanese warlord at Asian Games ceremony
6 cards 50sSouth Korea's Nuri rocket eyes satellite internet future
A planned 2026 launch of 15 satellites could be the first step toward a homegrown alternative to Starlink.
7 cards 1m 50sSamsung dev turned farmer in South Korea
A burned-out tech worker and flight attendant quit their jobs, traveled the world, then came home to run a family deodeok farm.
7 cards 2m 5Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue
South Korea's privacy regulator is sharply raising penalties for major data leaks, aiming to make companies treat data protection as a preventive investment rather than a routine cost.
7 cards 1m 50s 9South Korea refuses to join US war on Iran
Seoul defies Trump pressure and rules out military deployment to the Middle East, citing domestic opposition and focus on protecting its own shipping.
6 cards 1m 30sWhy K-Pop Conquered the World, C-Pop Didn't
South Korea turned pop music into soft power while China, despite its size, couldn't replicate the formula.
11 cards 3mMichelle Zauner's new memoir explores her year in Korea
Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner follows up her bestselling debut with a book about reconnecting with her roots in Seoul.
6 cards 1m 30s 5South Korea wins $32.5M judgment against North Korea
A Seoul court ruled that North Korea must pay for destroying a joint liaison office in 2020, but enforcement remains uncertain.
7 cards 1m 50s 5South Korea approves abortion pills after decades of bans
Seven years after decriminalizing abortion, South Korea will finally allow medication abortions starting in 2027, marking a major shift for one of the world's strictest countries.
8 cards 2mAsia charts Arctic shipping routes to dodge Middle East chaos
As conflicts threaten traditional trade lanes, South Korea, China, and India are racing to establish commercial Arctic passages, reshaping global shipping and geopolitics.
12 cards 3m 7Michelin restaurant fined for serving ants in Seoul
Evett faced prosecution after topping desserts with insects not approved under South Korean food safety law.
6 cards 1m 20sSeoul court orders North Korea to pay $32.5m in damages
First lawsuit seeking compensation from Pyongyang for blowing up liaison office in 2020, though payment is considered unlikely.
7 cards 1m 50sSouth Korea's chipmakers now recruit before graduation
Samsung and SK Hynix are funding university degrees that hand students a job years before they finish.
11 cards 3m 5South Korea got old fast. Here's what broke
South Korea aged into a super-aged society in 24 years, and the rest of the world gets to watch what happens next.
13 cards 3mKorea's chart rolls over, and the world follows
One trader's wave count says South Korea's ETF has topped, and that every other world index goes down with it.
6 cards 1m 30s 6A South Korea ETF chart with a bearish warning attached
A TradingView analyst reads the South Korea ETF as topping out, and thinks the rest of the world could follow.
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