Joohee Jang is a 31-year-old South Korean office worker who balances a day job at a foreign shipping company with something ...

South Korea’s 2025 presidential election exposes the country’s deep gender gap in political representation. This gap is not due to complacency or cultural resignation. Korean women have long fought ...

South Koreans stage a rally supporting feminism in Seoul in February 2022. One sign, center, is titled "The 20th presidential election vote." (Ahn Young-joon / Associated Press) It’s a worldwide shift ...

Young women were at the forefront of the movement which led to Yoon Suk-yeol being impeached, significantly outnumbering their male counterparts. Many have been disillusioned by unmet demands for ...

With BTS poised to reunite, “Squid Game” returning and a Broadway show winning awards, the Korean cultural wave keeps on rolling. By Jin Yu Young Reporting from Seoul A Tony Award-winning play on ...

First lady Kim Hea-kyung, who is visiting South Africa alongside President Lee Jae-myung, continued her diplomatic efforts as first lady on the 22nd (local time) by meeting with local chefs and ...

...one couple, of a North Korean woman and a South Korean man, at a time. Morten Traavik and Sun Kim will world premiere their film with a specific location and universal themes at the Sheffield ...

Many South Korean companies now offer baby bonuses and flexible work policies to support employees in their personal and ...

SEOUL, Aug 22 (Reuters) - South Korean entertainment companies riding the Korean Wave, or Hallyu, are scrambling to widen their global reach as Asia's fourth-largest economy bets on cultural exports ...

SEOUL — It’s a worldwide shift that has taken political scientists and sociologists by surprise: the growing ideological divide between young men and women. In the recent U.S. presidential election, ...