Korea

Members of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions wearing masks and costumes inspired by the Netflix original Korean series "Squid Game" attend a rally demanding job security in Seoul, South Korea
Arts, Culture & Media
Netflix hit ‘Squid Game’ exposes the growing resentment between rich and poor, psychiatrist says
A North Korean soldier keeps watch toward the south through a binocular telescope
Conflict & Justice
South Korea just repatriated two North Korean fishermen. Why?
A man wearing a white robe delivers a speech and uses his hand to emphasize a point
Nuclear
Just ‘empty’ words? South Korea’s Moon calls for peace with North Korea by 2045.
Police control crowd in protest with signs with Korean letters.
Global Politics
South Korean aid to North Korea could be a game changer — if North Korea accepts it
A black and white photo of a large family
Global Nation First Person
For many, international adoption isn’t just a new family. It’s the loss of another life.
Korean Leaders Pledge Denuclearization and End to Korean War
Full Episode
Over 60 Years Later, Hope for Peace on Korean Peninsula
Full Episode
Deported U.S. Veterans Speak Out Against Treatment by Feds
Full Episode
Won Hyung-joon leads the Lindenbaum Festival Orchestra and hopes one day to perform together with North Korean musicians.
Music
Why ‘Arirang’ is the perfect song for a divided Korea
Crutches
Global Politics
My crutches: The story of a North Korean defector
olympics
Global Politics
Two Koreas will march together at the Olympics
Members of North Korea-led International Taekwondo Federation demonstrate their skills at the World Taekwondo Headquarters 'Kukkiwon'
Global Politics
Is taekwondo the key to peace between North and South Korea?
Korea's Godfather of Rock Shin Joong-hyun got his start as a teenage guitarist at the Yongsan Garrison in Seoul. Now the US military base is closing.
Culture
The US military’s Yongsan Garrison leaves a mixed legacy in Seoul
Boy on horse in carousel, looking at camera. Old, scanned photo
Conflict
On being Korean in America in the time of the ‘Axis of Evil’ and ‘Rocket Man’
A Korean bean sprout dish, kongnamul muchim), gets an Uzbek spin (fresh cilantro) at Cafe at Your Mother-in-Law.
Food
At this Brooklyn restaurant, you can get Korean food with a side of Russian history
Lee Man-hee is the founder of Shinchonji, an apocalyptic Christian group from South Korea that's attracted followers in numerous countries, including the US. Lee identifies himself as "the promised pastor," mentioned in the Bible. His critics say that Lee
Culture
This apocalyptic Korean Christian group goes by different names. Critics say it’s just a cult.
South Korean Buddhists gather every year to recite the Diamond Sutra with monks from the Jogye Temple in Seoul. This year was special, with a presidential election coming up on May 9th.
Religion
In South Korea, pretty much everything is a little bit Buddhist. Including politics.
Kim Craig has spent the past three years in Korea, hoping to get home to the US.
Justice
This woman has been stuck in Korea for three years trying to get home to the US
Kristyn Leach on her Sunol, California farm, Namu. “There is significance to all this in terms of that sense of pride and connectedness,” she says.
Culture
A Korean adoptee finds her heritage through farming
South Korean officials trying to convince youth of importance of unification
hand phone illustration by  Leslie Agan
Culture
If you’re placing a phone call to North Korea, it may be answered on a ‘hand phone’
No Kum Sok, age 3, wearsing a pith helmet, with his father, No Zae Hiub (right), an all-star pitcher for his company’s baseball team, in Sinhung, Korea, in 1935.
Books
This Florida man escaped from North Korea in a MiG-15 fighter jet
Poster from previous Pyongyang International Film Festival.
Culture
What a Westerner found at a North Korean Film Festival
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watches a display at a military air show with Air Force officers in May 2014.
Global Politics
Kim Jong-Un is back! Who cares?
Yeonmi Park with her family in North Korea
Justice
She risked her life to defect from North Korea — now she wants the world to hear her story
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has released a new book called World Order.
Global Politics
Henry Kissinger would not have supported the Iraq War if he’d known what he knows now
People attend a mass rally against "U.S. Imperialists" at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang June 25, 2014.
Global Politics
Two Americans went to North Korea as tourists — now they’re both going on trial for ‘hostile acts’
An employee works with documents at the Russian State Archives.
Global Scan
From Russia with smut: Inside the Soviet Union’s porn collection
Global Politics
North Korea bombs South Korean island
Global Politics
South Korea’s president goes on national TV to apologize for the ferry disaster
Tensions reach boiling point on Korean peninsula
Global Politics
Takeouts: tension on the Korean peninsula, listeners on the first synthetic living cell
K-pop girl group SNSD
Arts, Culture & Media
Korea’s K-pop stars have to dance around… the censors
Kim Jong-un
Global Politics
Undercover reporters reveal what life is really like inside secretive North Korea
Rodman in North Korea
Global Politics
So what’s wrong with Rodman’s basketball diplomacy? Plenty, says a former ambassador
Global Scan
Just who is the real threat to North Korea’s future?
Jang Song-thaek in army uniform standing with his nephew and North Korea's top leader, Kim Jong-un, at a military parade in Pyongyang (February of 2012).
Global Politics
What comes next after North Korea has a top official put to death?
The moment of Jang Song Thaek's arrest, after he was denounced in the middle of a party meeting.
Global Politics
Execution challenges North Korea’s friendship with China
The moment of Jang Song Thaek's arrest, after he was denounced in the middle of a party meeting.
Global Politics
A top official in North Korea is arrested for ‘dreaming different dreams’
Global Politics
North Korea’s angry rhetoric better viewed with understanding, than comedy
Global Politics
South Korea backs off speculation that North preparing for nuke test, but tensions remain
Global Politics
North Korea rages over U.S.-South Korea military exercise
Experts see North’s hands in reported computer attack on South Korea
North Korea conducts third nuclear test in challenge to global community
South Korean Park Geun-hye makes bid to be country’s first female president
Global Politics
Reports: North Korea agrees to suspend some nuclear activities in exchange for food aid
South Korean soldiers on edge as mourning continues for Kim Jong-il
As North Korea mourns, leaders try to tie Kim Jong-un to his grandfather
South Korea on alert as North Korea mourns passing of Kim Jong Il
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il dies
Grandson of North Korean leader makes waves by attending Bosnian high school
Global Politics
North Korean defectors can’t join South Korea’s army
To be or not to be: Kim Jong Il’s successor
North Korean Refugees
North Korean Tablet Pre-Loaded with Angry Birds
Global Politics
2013 North Korean Mass Games ‘Even More Massive’ Than Usual
Business, Economics and Jobs
Documentary Glimpses at the North Korean Film Industry
Conflict & Justice
Laotian Officials Send North Korean Teenage Defectors Home
American Sentenced in North Korea
Lifestyle & Belief
Choco Pie, South Korea’s Equivalent of a Moon Pie