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    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      South Korean business & finance
      South Korea optimistic of inclusion in key world bond index

      Becoming a constituent of FTSE Russell WGBI could provide boost of up to $67bn in foreign capital inflows

    • Friday, 15 September, 2023
      Travel
      Bed and breakfast with the Buddha

      South Korea’s ‘templestay’ programme offers accommodation — and a taste of inner peace — at monasteries across the country

      A traditionally decorated Buddhist temple with an ornate mokoshi roof carvings and a golden Buddha statue
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      South Korean business & finance
      South Korean film industry rocked by box office fraud allegations

      Flourishing sector that won global acclaim beset by scandal over millions of forged cinema ticket sales

      Still from ‘Emergency Declaration’
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      The Art Market
      Freddie Mercury sale at Sotheby’s beats estimates as buyers want it all

      Frieze fairs clash in New York and Seoul; Pace to open in Japan; Simon Lee’s artists find new homes

      A man with a moustache stands on a street in Tokyo
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      South Korean business & finance
      South Korea launches samurai bond in Japan as bilateral relations improve

      Bank of Japan’s dovish monetary policy has made yen-denominated debt issuance attractive

      From left, US president Joe Biden, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Global InsightChristian Davies
      Japan and South Korea’s rapprochement is shakier than it looks

      Tokyo may need to show genuine compassion over forced-labour issue to establish partnership with Seoul that lasts

      Yoon Suk Yeol, left, Joe Biden, centre, Fumio Kishida
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      Tokyo, Seoul and an unheralded diplomatic victory Premium content

      Biden’s Camp David summit may already be forgotten, but it marks a long-desired shift for US allies in Asia

      US President Joe Biden holds a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol at Camp David
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Collecting
      Frieze Seoul 2023
      Two people look at a screenprint of a blonde woman with bright red lips
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023
      Frieze Seoul director Patrick Lee on why the fair is a ‘platform for Asia’

      Now an anchor for the city’s art week, Frieze returns with more regional galleries and a bigger events programme

      A man in a blue suit with glasses looks intent in front of a black and red painting
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023
      Frieze Seoul goes multidisciplinary with film and music programmes

      Four non-profit spaces show video works by 14 artists, while singer-songwriter Colde puts on a concert

      Gallery installation of a long screen showing tinted scenes from urban life
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023
      Frieze Seoul 2023: what you need to know

      From must-see highlights of the art fair’s second edition to which gallery shows in the city not to miss

      Two people look at brightly-coloured semi-abstract paintings on the white walls of an art fair
    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      #techAsia
      BYD makes its move and China suppliers go easy on hiring Premium content

      The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

      BYD’s ATTO 3 electric car
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      South Korean business & finance
      Chinese robot waiters fuel Korean anxiety over labour shortages

      Imported machines designed to serve diners in restaurants outnumber homemade rivals

      A artificial intelligence serving robot delivers meal during a demonstration at a restaurant on September 15 2020
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Inside BusinessChristian Davies
      Prosecutor-turned-president looms over South Korean business

      Yoon Suk Yeol pardons company leaders but state makes an intervention elsewhere

      Yoon Suk Yeol
    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      US foreign policy
      Camp David pact eases Japan-South Korea tensions

      US president unveils trilateral agreement that includes joint military exercises and intelligence sharing

      Joe Biden greets Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea, left, and Fumio Kishida of Japan, right, at Camp David
    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      US foreign policy
      US, Japan and South Korea to deepen security ties to deter China

      Washington convinces Tokyo and Seoul to move past historical disagreements

      US president Joe Biden, left, Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol greet each other ahead of a trilateral meeting during the G7 summit in Hiroshima in May
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      InterviewPOSCO
      Korea battery materials maker onshores China supply chain to win US subsidies

      Posco’s battery materials chief says company is targeting the growing EV market

    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Travel & leisure industry
      Japanese and South Korean shares surge on return of Chinese tour groups

      Markets cheer Beijing’s move to scrap pandemic-era restrictions on overseas travel to 78 countries

      A tourist takes a photograph in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in 2019
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      Scouts gathering in South Korea evacuated ahead of typhoon

      World Scout Jamboree derailed by extreme weather and poor sanitation in embarrassment for Seoul

      British scouts leave the World Scout Jamboree campsite in Buan, South Korea on Sunday
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      Semiconductors
      South Korean politician urges US to abandon China chip strategy

      Former Samsung executive Yang Hyang-ja warns of risk of damaging relations with Asian allies

      Yang Hyang-ja
    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      Anjana Ahuja
      New superconductor frenzy seems too super to be true

      Scepticism has built around initial reports that LK-99 might prove to be a transformative discovery

      A view of the material called LK-99. Scientists in South Korea say LK-99 is a room-temperature superconductor that can work at normal pressure. But there’s a catch: proof remains elusive
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      US foreign policy
      US seeks to deepen Tokyo-Seoul security links to boost Pacific deterrence

      White House pushes trilateral defence co-operation amid rising threat from China and North Korea

      US, Japanese and South Korean naval vsesels participate in a trilateral anti-submarine exercise in the international waters off the Korean Peninsula last year
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      Tech cold war: South Korea pivots from China to US

      Washington is courting chipmakers and battery manufacturers with large subsidies but demanding they loosen ties with their other major market

      President Yoon Suk Yeol, with a Hyundai electric car, a Samsung DRAM chip and symbols from the flags of the US, China and South Korea
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Architecture
      The boom in Seoul’s corporate museums

      South Korea’s burgeoning commercial gallery scene has led to the creation of architecturally adventurous buildings

      A pond of water under a building shaped like a cube
    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      Samsung Electronics Co Ltd
      Samsung releases latest foldable smartphones as competition intensifies

      Google’s entry and Chinese rivals’ expansion pose a threat to South Korean group’s leadership in niche segment

      Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold phones on display
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