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  • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
    Cryptocurrencies
    Singapore suspends crypto exchange over spat with K-pop group BTS

    Bitget was threatened with legal action by Korean boy band’s agency for promoting digital currency Army Coin

  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    US-China relations
    China’s test of hypersonic weapon raised regional tensions, says US defence chief

    Lloyd Austin warns advances highlight why Beijing has become the top challenge for American military

  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    South Korea Economy
    South Korean inflation races to fastest pace in a decade

    Consumer prices jump in Asia’s fourth-biggest economy amid Covid outbreak and supply chain turmoil

  • Monday, 29 November, 2021
    South Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korean presidential hopeful plays down reunification with north

    Ruling party’s Lee signals policy shift towards accepting coexistence with Pyongyang

  • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
    Semiconductors
    South Korea’s SK Hynix caught in US-China semiconductor battle

    Washington’s curbs on technology transfers threaten chipmaker’s competitiveness

  • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
    News in-depthNorth Korea nuclear tensions
    South Korea longs for Trump’s focus as efforts to engage Pyongyang stall

    Seoul complains Joe Biden’s policy is aimed at managing rather than solving the problem

  • Sunday, 21 November, 2021
    News in-depthSamsung Electronics Co Ltd
    Samsung investors look for guidance on plans for $100bn cash pile

    First overseas trip by founding family scion Lee Jae-yong since prison release stokes acquisition hopes

  • Monday, 15 November, 2021
    North Korea
    North Korea building project points to reopening of border with China

    Conversion of air base into train container facility follows 2 years of isolation and economic strain

  • Tuesday, 9 November, 2021
    Coronavirus economic impact
    Asia charts a third way as it opens up its post-Covid economies

    Restrictions may not be as severe as China’s but critics still believe curbs are too strict

  • Promoted Content
  • Friday, 5 November, 2021
    South Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korean golf club bans Japanese cars to ‘honour’ ancestors’ fight against occupation

    Parking decree exposes difficulties of forming a US-led Asian alliance to confront China

  • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
    Kakao Corp
    South Korea’s biggest mobile payment app shares double on IPO

    Kakao Pay lists two months later than planned amid regulatory concerns about frothy valuations

  • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
    South Korean business & finance
    South Korea’s new workplace safety law alarms foreign companies

    Rule to make executives criminally liable for infractions undermines country’s appeal, business groups say

  • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
    The Big Read
    South Korea plots its next entertainment blockbuster

    Having given the world K-pop, Parasite and Squid Game, it now wants to create global platforms to distribute its content

  • Sunday, 31 October, 2021
    South Korea Society
    Older South Koreans turn to dating apps to relieve their loneliness

    Adult children are helping their parents find matches to combat elderly poverty and suicide

  • Friday, 29 October, 2021
    North Korea
    Hungry North Koreans told to eat ‘delicious’ black swans

    UN warns that food crisis is worsening with children and the elderly most at risk

  • Wednesday, 20 October, 2021
    North Korea
    North Korea-China trade hits highest level since start of pandemic

    Economy of secretive regime reeling from health crisis and sanctions after Kim Jong Un closed borders

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    South Korea
    The Seungil Bridge sets in stone the division of the Korean Peninsula

    Built by both the north and south, the structure serves as a symbol of what unites and separates the countries

  • Monday, 11 October, 2021
    North Korea
    Kim tells North Korea officials to boost living standards as food crisis deepens

    Dictator admits country faces ‘unprecedented difficulties’ from sanctions and poor harvest

  • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
    News in-depthSouth Korea
    Seoul watches on as US corrals allies to counter China

    South Korea struggles to chart a course that will mollify both Washington and Beijing

  • Monday, 4 October, 2021
    North Korea nuclear tensions
    North Korea restores hotline a year after blowing up liaison office

    Kim Jong Un reopens communication in wake of missile tests to ‘rehabilitate’ relations with Seoul

  • Friday, 6 August, 2021
    News in-depthBelarus
    Activist and athlete show human face of Belarus crackdown

    Vitaly Shishov found dead days after Olympian Krystsina Tsimanouskaya claimed asylum

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    News in-depthAllegro
    The Polish IPO with a high price tag and even higher hopes

    Allegro’s listing brings new energy to sluggish capital markets and an underperforming stock exchange

  • Monday, 28 September, 2020
    News in-depthPoland
    Law & Justice loses touch with Poland’s moderate Catholics

    Ruling party’s alliance with hardline clerics alienates young seeking spiritual sustenance

  • Monday, 21 September, 2020
    Poland
    The power struggle at the heart of Poland’s political turmoil

    Justice minister and allies stake out hard line in culmination of ideological confrontation within coalition

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    Poland
    Poland’s ruling coalition on verge of collapse

    Law and Justice’s governing partner opposes contentious animal rights legislation

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