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The opening ceremony has taken place, medals are starting to be awarded and the action is really picking up at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Between now and Feb...
While tens of thousands risk everything to flee North Korea, a few, having failed to adjust to the capitalist South, make a desperate journey back.
In South Korea, it’s not the latest popular toys that fly off the shelves this time of year. In hot demand instead are birth control pills, condoms and Christmas-themed lingerie. While the population is about 30% Christian, Christmas is widely celebrated as a lover's holiday.
The popularity of "Squid Game" is inseparable from South Korea's very real crisis of mounting household debt, gaping inequality and a weak social safety net.
Guinea pigs for hire: In need of quick cash, young South Koreans join clinical trials Victoria Kim © Provided by The LA Times South Koreans receive a COVID-19 vaccine in Seoul in April. (Chung Sung-jun / Pool Photo) The cellphone bill was coming due. The pricey medication for her chronic skin condition was running low. She'd already tapped the parental credit line, promising to pay them back in monthly installments. In her bank account, less than 50,000 won — not quite $45. A few months into the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the typical part-time gigs 23-year-old Lee Ho-jung...