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South Korea

December 2024

  • Police and protesters clash outside the National Assembly

    Live
    South Korean political activities banned, protests prohibited and media censored under martial law – live

    Members of the national assembly banned from entering building after president announces ‘emergency martial law’
  • Yoon Suk Yeol

    South Korean president declares martial law over threat from ‘anti-state forces’

    Yoon Suk Yeol says in late-night address that opposition parties have taken parliamentary process hostage
  • Bags of plastic bottles

    Countries call for binding targets to cut plastic production after talks fail

    Group of 85 countries and blocs press for ambition in plastic waste treaty after no agreement was reached in Busan

November 2024

  • Plastic wrappers and containers of commercial products at a garbage dump in the Philippines

    Hope of breakthrough at international plastic treaty talks after two-year deadlock

  • three young women in traditional dress walk through snow holding umbrellas

    Heavy snowfall in South Korea – in pictures

  • Cars move slowly on a road in Suwon, 30 kilometres south of Seoul, South Korea, 28 November 2024, the second day of heavy snowfall.

    Four killed and flights cancelled as heavy snowfall blankets Seoul

  • Activists with a banner and a large pile of blue-coloured plastic in front of them

    Plastics lobbyists make up biggest group at vital UN treaty talks

  • Seoul slows down under blanket of heaviest November snow in 100 years

  • ‘We’d rather perish’: protests roil South Korean women’s university over plan to admit male students

  • Opinion
    Multilateralism faces a toxic brew of debt, climate crisis and war. It’s time for a reboot

    Mo Ibrahim

  • Seoul says Russia sent air-defence missiles to North Korea in return for troops

  • The Week in Patriarchy
    Are US women protesting against Trump by ‘swearing off sex with men’?

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • As 4B takes the world by storm, South Korea is grappling with a backlash against feminism

  • Global plastic production must be cut to curb pollution, study says

  • South Korean police arrest 215 people in suspected $228m crypto scam

  • South Korean actor Song Jae-lim dies aged 39

  • South Korean president practising golf to prepare for future meetings with Donald Trump

  • North Korea accused of GPS jamming attacks on South Korean ships and aircraft

  • Korean cinema in ‘precarious period’ due to Netflix, says Jang Joon-hwan

October 2024

  • Antony Blinken with Cho Tae-yul at a press conference

    About 8,000 North Korean soldiers at Ukraine border, says US

    Antony Blinken warns that Russia is preparing to deploy the troops into combat ‘in the coming days’
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