Two Koreas News Today

Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) Korea invites the British ambassador to give a talk right after the Lunar New Year long weekend. As British ambassador to Korea, Colin Crooks also holds the title of honorary president of RAS Korea, the worlds oldest Korean studies organization founded in 1900.

There are two Koreas. I am not talking about the North and the South. I am talking about the two contrasting narratives about Korean society, one positive, another negative.

My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene.

Startups have become a buzzword among North Korean defectors living in South Korea as they mull various options to start their own business in order to escape what they perceive as discrimination at South Korean companies against people from the North. A 2022 survey conducted by Korea Hana Foundation, which was set up to help defectors settle here, found that 17.9 percent of North Koreans living in South Korea are self-employed. The longer theyve lived in the South, the higher the self-employmen...

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Multiple drones from North Korea have crossed into South Korea and flown over its territory, South Korea's military says.

In the upcoming August 27-29 "six-party" talks in Beijing, theUnited States must not risk turning the clock back to August 1994,when the Chinese persuaded the Clinton Administration to give NorthKorea billions in aid without first requiring Pyongyang to forswearits nuclear ambitions. To avoid repeating past mistakes, U.S.negotiators must have a clear-eyed view of China's role in theNorth Korean nuclear issue.

While North Korea’s long-range ballistic missiles have been the target of UN sanctions, the bevy of shorter-range weapons it’s developed in recent years are... 07.11.2022, Sputnik International

SEOUL: North and South Korea exchanged warning shots Monday along their disputed western sea boundary — a scene of past bloodshed and naval battles — in a development that raises worry of possible clashes after North Korea’s recent barrage of weapons tests.