Western tourists return to North Korea for first time since pandemic border closures
Tours of Western travellers are due to enter the North Korean border city of Rason today for the first time since borders ...
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Conservation groups look for new strategies, tech to halt vaquita decline
Fewer than 10 vaquitas, the world’s smallest porpoise, survive in the wild today, experts say. Illegal fishing has decimated ...
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Democracy is not static: How authoritarians are rapidly chipping away at freedoms across the globe
Democracy is not static. Its health always depends on the next election. The fall of Germany’s government and possible ...
The Korea Herald3d
S. Korea's declining population biggest concern for investors: Jim Rogers
Renowned US investor Jim Rogers cited South Korea’s declining population as the biggest concern for international investors. Foreseeing a potential long-term economic impact, he said that South ...
G20 summit in South Africa overshadowed by US envoy Marco Rubio’s absence
Top diplomats from the Group of 20 major economies gathered in South Africa on Thursday and Friday for meetings focused on a ...
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Trump’s Korea Strategy: How Washington Is Navigating South Korea’s Political Turmoil
South Korea’s political turmoil of martial law, impeachments, and vitriolic attacks among its political parties has entered ...
The Korea Times4d
Korea needs to accept more foreigners in tackling population crisis: presidential committee official
The number of foreigners staying in South Korea came to around 2.65 million in 2024, accounting for about 5 percent of the total population, according to government data. (Yonhap) ...
Forbes4d
South Korea
After emerging from the 1950-53 war with North Korea, South Korea emerged as one of ... address challenges arising from its rapidly aging population, inflexible labor market, continued dominance ...
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South Korea Bans Downloads of DeepSeek, the Chinese A.I. App
On Monday night, the app was not available in the Apple or Google app store in South Korea, although DeepSeek was still accessible via a web browser. Regulators said the app service would resume ...
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South Korea's Yoon attends first trial hearing for insurrection
SEOUL, Feb 20 (Reuters) - South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared in a Seoul court on Thursday for his first trial hearing on charges of insurrection in the country's first ...
Over 65 and rising: Is the EU facing a demographic crisis?
At the beginning of 2024, the EU population was estimated at 449.3 million people, with more than one-fifth being 65 years of ...
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South Korean Officials Convicted Over Forcibly Sending North Koreans Home
By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul In 2019, two North Korean fishermen confessed to murdering 16 shipmates before they fled to South Korea by boat and sought asylum. The then ...