News South Korea People: A South Korean man just defected to North Korea in an extremely rare case, 33 years after his parents did the same thing
Defections from democratic South Korea to the communist, isolated North are extremely rare, with moves in the other directions much more common. Some 1,000 people risk their lives to flee the North ...
News South Korea People: The Son of a Prominent South Korean Defector Has Also Defected to North Korea, State Media Reports
Under a South Korean security law, people who secretly visit North Korea can face up to 10 years in prison. Since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, more than 30,000 North Koreans have fled to ...
News South Korea People: Kim Yo Jong promoted to higher status in North Korea, lawmaker says
South Korea's national intelligence service said Kim Yo Jong's status ... the standing chair of the Supreme People's Assembly, and Ri Su Yong, the vice chair of the Korean Workers' Party," said South ...
News South Korea People: South Korea agencies can't confirm Kim brother as CIA source
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he would not approve of U.S. intelligence agencies using family members of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as assets, a day after a report that Kim's half-brother had traveled to Malaysia to meet his CIA contact before being assassinated there in 2017. Trump
News South Korea People: I moved to South Korea to teach English and travel — and in the process, I paid off about $16,000 of debt and saved nearly as much
I was also single at the time, with no major responsibilities like a home or a car. Plus, I knew people who were in South Korea and a friend had recommended me for a job. Working overseas isn't for ...
News South Korea People: Eyewitnesses help document public executions in North Korea for a day of reckoning
“It maintains that culture of fear, it asserts regime control ... Because it takes years for North Koreans who flee to China to make their way to South Korea, the most recent documented execution ...
News South Korea People: South Korea's suicide rate declines, but not among elderly
but the rate for twenty-something South Koreans has remained steady in the same period. More than half of suicide victims were either not in the workforce, or unemployed, according to the government ...
News South Korea People: South Korean unification minister: Economic projects with North Korea in limbo
South Korean Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul said Tuesday. "The outcome of the U.S.-DPRK summit in Hanoi gave us new challenges," Kim said at a press briefing, referring to North Korea's official ...
