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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung delivers a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 24, 2025
At U.N., South Korean leader vows to reduce tensions with North Korea
In a speech, President Lee Jae Myung emphasized his vision is "based on a cool-headed perception that denuclearization cannot be achieved in the short term."
Han Hak-ja, the leader of the Unification Church, arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul on Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2025
Japanese victims react to Unification Church head's arrest in South Korea
A lawyer group has urged Japan's parliament to set up an independent third-party panel to thoroughly investigate the Unification Church's ties with Japanese politicians.
Han Hak-ja, the leader of the Unification Church, arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 23, 2025
Leader of South Korea's Unification Church jailed after court issues warrant
Han Hak-ja, 82, has been accused of directing the church to bribe the country's former first lady for favors for the church's business interests.
Police investigate an area around the scene where a woman was killed in a knife attack in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Sept. 1.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 23, 2025
Tokyo police rearrest South Korean man suspected of murdering ex-girlfriend on stalking charges
Police allege that the suspect, Park Yong-jun, repeatedly stalked the victim, Bang Ji-won, and trespassed into her home in the days leading to her killing.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio shakes hands with Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya (left) and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Hyun (right) at the Lotte New York Palace Hotel, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York City on Monday.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 23, 2025
Japan, U.S. and South Korea reaffirm commitment to ridding North Korea of nukes
The countries’ top diplomats poured cold water on the chances of the U.S. ditching its denuclearization policy, after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hinted he is open to talks.
Marriage is rapidly declining in South Korea as rising education and career aspirations collide with traditional gender norms.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2025
South Korea’s baby bust threatens its demographic future
At 1.2 births per woman, Japan is still reproducing faster than South Korea, where the birth rate has dropped to just 0.75 — the lowest in the world.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a meeting of the Supreme People's Assembly at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang in this photo released Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 22, 2025
North Korea’s Kim open to talks with Trump, as South’s Lee backs nuke freeze
Kim said talks could reopen if the U.S. drops its denuclearization demand, remarks that came as South Korea's leader said he'd back a deal to freeze Pyongyang's nuke program.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung speaks during an interview at the Presidential Office in Seoul on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 22, 2025
South Korea's President Lee says U.S. investment demands would spark financial crisis
In an interview on Friday, Lee also spoke about Seoul's neighbors, its relations with the U.S. and the immigration raid that detained hundreds of Koreans.
Park Chan-wook (center) attended the Busan International Film Festival opening ceremony with “No Other Choice" cast members on Wednesday.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 19, 2025
Park Chan-wook’s sharp satire ‘No Other Choice’ opens Busan festival
The director's socially charged murder-comedy made its Asian premiere at the film festival on Wednesday.
South Korea's LG Energy Solution was using workarounds to U.S. visa restrictions well before Donald Trump returned as U.S. president.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 19, 2025
LG Energy was using U.S. visa workarounds before Trump, documents show
South Korean companies say they face long-running problems in getting short-term visas for specialists they need for their high-tech plants in the U.S.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (left) and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba shake hands during a joint news conference in Tokyo in August.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 19, 2025
Japan and South Korea planning Busan visit for Ishiba
Ishiba is expected to hold talks with South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in the envisaged trip, the prime minister's last overseas one before stepping down.
Han Hak-ja, the leader of the Unification Church, arrives at the special prosecutors' office for questioning over allegations, which she has denied, that she instructed the church to bribe the wife of ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol and a politician close to him, in Seoul on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 17, 2025
Unification Church head questioned in probe on South Korea's ex-first lady
Han Hak-ja was quizzed over her alleged involvement in bribing Kim Keon Hee, wife of ousted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol.
Tourists walk through a traditional alleyway near Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in August.
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2025
Foreign visitors to Japan hit record 3.42 million in August
The tally was pushed higher by visitors from mainland China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the United States.
Ahn Hak-sop sits in front of his foster daughter’s paper-craft art-pieces in a small church in the Civilian Controlled Zone, near the border with North Korea, in Gimpo, South Korea.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 16, 2025
The communist warrior stranded for decades in an ‘American colony’
Ahn Hak-sop was captured during the Korean War by the South and imprisoned for more than 40 years. Now 95, he wants to return to the North to die.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attends a news conference at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Sept. 7
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 16, 2025
Ishiba may visit South Korea for talks with Lee, sources say
The trip, if realized, would be Ishiba's first visit to South Korea since taking office in October last year.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung attends a news conference to mark 100 days in office at the Blue House in Seoul on Thursday.
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 16, 2025
South Korean Presidential Office says tariff talks with U.S. stalled
The countries have been struggling to overcome obstacles to finalize a trade deal agreed in July, especially the details of a $350 billion investment fund.
U.S. soldiers participate in the Freedom Shield joint U.S.-South Korea exercise near the North Korean border in Yeoncheon, South Korea, in March.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Sep 16, 2025
Trump 2.0 and the U.S.-South Korea alliance
Debate in Seoul over the future of the U.S.-South Korea alliance has intensified since Trump returned to the White House
North Korean hackers used ChatGPT to craft a fake draft of a South Korean military identification card to create a realistic-looking image meant to make a phishing attempt seem more credible, a South Korean cybersecurity firm found.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 15, 2025
North Korean hackers used ChatGPT to help forge deepfake ID
The document was used in a phishing attack on a target in South Korea, according to cybersecurity researchers.
Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, arrives at the Vostochny Сosmodrome before a meeting between her brother and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia's far eastern Amur region in September 2023.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 14, 2025
North Korea condemns 'reckless' U.S.-Japan-South Korea drills
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's powerful sister condemned the upcoming joint military drills as a "reckless show of strength" that would bring "bad results."
Jose Munoz, president and CEO of Hyundai Motor
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2025
Hyundai battery plant faces startup delay after U.S. raid, CEO says
The plant, part of a $7.6 billion factory complex to make battery-powered models, was slated to come online later this year.
Takaichi poised to become Japan's first female PM after winning LDP poll
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, holds a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
A Japanese ski resort town is roiled by a debate over immigration
A Swedish snowboard instructor works at the Niseko ski resort area on Hokkaido, in Kutchan, in December 2022
Retro-wrapped trains mark 100th anniversary of Tokyo's Yamanote Line
Trains decorated to resemble the 103 (left) and 205 series of trains that formerly ran on the Yamanote Line, in Tokyo on Saturday.
How Takaichi won the LDP’s leadership race
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, poses in the party leader's office after the LDP leadership election in Tokyo on Saturday.
North Korea says 'special assets' deployed against South
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during the Defense Development 2025 military exhibition event ahead of the 80th founding anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, in Pyongyang in this picture released Sunday.
Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.
Tea ceremony experts see matcha boom as a big opportunity
Atsuko Mori, founder and director of Kyoto-based tea salon Camellia Tea Ceremony, prepares matcha during a tea ceremony in Kyoto.

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