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SOUTH KOREA

A life-size holographic police officer, intended to prevent crime, at a park in Seoul on Aug. 28. Three people were stabbed to death Wednesday at a pizza restaurant in the South Korean capital — a rare occurrence in the city.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 3, 2025
Three killed in stabbing at Seoul pizza restaurant
The attack in the city's Gwanak district was carried out by the restaurant's owner, police said.
Tokyo's Shin-Okubo district filled with Korean restaurants and shops. South Korean culture has increasingly been embraced as cutting-edge, especially among younger Japanese people.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Sep 3, 2025
Mutual cultural acceptance underpins Japan-South Korea ties
Among those between the ages of 18 and 29, 66% in South Korea and 72.5% in Japan expressed favorable views of one another.
Police investigate an area around the scene where a woman was killed in a knife attack in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 2, 2025
Korean man arrested in Tokyo on suspicion of killing ex-girlfriend
Police had told the suspect to leave the country after the victim reached out for help, and they saw him go through a security check at Narita Airport days before her death.
Doctors strike and shout slogans during a rally to protest against government plans to increase medical school admissions and healthcare reform, in Seoul in June 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 2, 2025
South Korean doctors end 18-month walkout in relief to hospitals
The return of the trainees marks the end of one of the longest labor disputes in South Korea’s medical sector.
Police investigate the scene where a woman was found bleeding on a street in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 1, 2025
Woman dies after possible knife attack in Setagaya
An emergency call was made just after 1:30 p.m. on Monday that the woman, a 40-year-old South Korean native, was bleeding on the ground.
A U.S. military aircraft takes off from the Kadena U.S. Air Force Base on the island of Okinawa in August 2023.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2025
Seoul punishes 10 over unauthorized entry into Japan's ADIZ
Due to bad weather, the aircraft consumed more fuel than planned. It made an emergency landing at the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture.
People visit a beach near the Wolseong Nuclear Power Plant in Gyeongju, South Korea, in August 2022.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 30, 2025
South Korea and U.S. agree to discuss nuclear reprocessing, minister says
Changing an agreement on the issue would mark a major shift for the U.S., which has long sought to limit the number of countries with this capability.
Under a notice published Friday, the U.S. Commerce Department said it was revoking waivers for Samsung and SK Hynix to use U.S. technologies in their Chinese operations.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 30, 2025
Samsung and SK Hynix lose U.S. waiver on chip gear for China use
The semiconductor companies had been operating in China under regulations that allow them to import chipmaking equipment without applying for a new license each time.
South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee, wife of impeached former President Yoon Suk Yeol, arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors at the Seoul Central District Court on Aug. 12.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 29, 2025
South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee indicted for bribery
Both former President Yoon Suk Yeol and Kim Keon Hee have been arrested and are in jail, with Yoon already undergoing trial on charges that include insurrection.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meet in Tokyo on Aug. 23, before Lee traveled to Washington for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump.
EDITORIALS
Aug 29, 2025
Lee Jae Myung had a very good week
Lee said that he had read the “Art of the Deal” — Trump’s ghost-written magnum opus — before their meeting and reportedly got advice on handling the U.S. leader from Ishiba.
Jang Dong-hyeok, the newly elected leader of the main opposition People Power Party, speaks during the final round of its convention in Seoul on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 26, 2025
South Korea opposition party picks backer of ousted President Yoon as leader
The People's Power Party picked Jang Dong-hyeok, a two-time lawmaker who joined right-wing rallies organized by Christian churches and spoke out in defense of Yoon.
U.S. President Donald Trump and South Korean leader Lee Jae Myung attend a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 26, 2025
'Peacemaker’ Trump says he wants to meet North Korea’s Kim this year
The U.S. president said “big progress” was possible, during a summit with South Korean leader Lee Jae Myung in Washington that also focused on defense and trade issues.
The Saudi Arabia delegate waves the OCA flag during the closing ceremony of the Asian Winter Games in Harbin, China, on Feb. 14.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 25, 2025
Olympic Council of Asia says Asian Winter Games in Saudi Arabia 'on schedule'
Saudi Arabia is supposed to host the next edition of the regional winter competition in a move derided by environmental groups.
Hours before talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, South Korean leader Lee Jae Myung has signaled that reaching a deal with Washington on its demand to have U.S. forces in South Korea play a larger role in countering China will prove difficult.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 25, 2025
Lee signals resistance to shifting U.S. Forces Korea’s focus to China
President Lee Jae Myung’s remarks come just hours before he meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in talks that are expected to be dominated by defense and security issues.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba shake hands at joint press announcement after summit talks in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 24, 2025
At meeting rich in symbolism, Ishiba and South Korea's Lee agree to steadily build ties
In the two countries' first joint document in 17 years, the leaders agreed to work together "to advance future-oriented and mutually beneficial common interests."
A combination image released Sunday shows firing tests of anti-aircraft missiles and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un flanked by Korean People's Army officers at unknown locations.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2025
North Korea test-fires two new air-defense missiles
Pyongyang did not offer any detailed description of the new missiles, only that their "operation and reaction mode is based on unique and special technology."
Trojena, the ski resort that is scheduled to host events during the 2029 Asian Winter Games, is part of the planned Saudi megacity of NEOM, which has faced a string of challenges in recent years.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 24, 2025
Saudi Arabia and Olympic Council weigh moving Asian Winter Games
The event is seen as a key marker for Saudi Arabia’s global ambitions and the kingdom could eventually simply choose to scale back plans for the planned ski resort.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to military personnel based at Osan Air Base in South Korea in June 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 23, 2025
Troop costs and China in focus when South Korea's Lee meets Trump
A U.S. official said a key area of focus of the summit would be so-called burden-sharing, with President Donald Trump expected to push the South Koreans for more.
A North Korean soldier stands guard in a watch tower next to a giant loudspeaker near the Demilitarized Zone dividing the two Koreas on June 12.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 23, 2025
Seoul says fired warning shots after North Korean troops crossed border
Pyongyang's state media said earlier Saturday that the incident occurred as North Korean soldiers worked to permanently seal the frontier dividing the peninsula.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung meet ahead of a summit in Kananaskis, Canada, in June. The two leaders will meet again on Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2025
Japan and South Korea to expand working holiday program
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung are expected to agree on the matter when they meet in Tokyo on Saturday.
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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