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SOUTH KOREA

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
Feb 9, 2018
Officials look to stem norovirus outbreak at Olympic Games
Olympic officials are discussing measures to combat the spread of a virus that causes vomiting and diarrhoea after 42 new cases were confirmed at the games, a Korean Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) official said on Friday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Feb 8, 2018
Samsung chairman Lee Kun-hee named as suspect in $7.5 million tax evasion case
Samsung Electronics' ailing chairman, Lee Kun-hee, was named by South Korean police on Thursday as a suspect in an 8.2 billion won ($7.5 million) tax evasion case that involved the use of bank accounts held by employees.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2018
Thaw won't warm South Koreans to unity
Younger South Koreans are either apathetic about or hostile toward North Korea.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 8, 2018
Olympic diplomacy: VIP seating plan a headache for Pyeongchang's opening party
The neighbors don't get along but you are still obliged to invite them all to the party. So where do they all sit?
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 8, 2018
North Korea says it has no plans to meet U.S. officials at Olympics
North Korea has no intention of meeting U.S officials during the Winter Olympics that start on Friday in the South, the KCNA news agency reported, dampening hopes the games will help resolve a tense standoff over the Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 7, 2018
South Korean President Moon Jae-in's Olympic realpolitik
South Korea's president has both neutralized the threat of North Korean disruption to the Olympic Games and kept a thin-skinned U.S. president firmly on his side.
OLYMPICS
Feb 7, 2018
Pyeongchang Games ready to welcome world
The competition at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics gets underway on Thursday with events in alpine skiing, biathlon, luge, curling and ski jumping, ahead of the official opening of the Winter Games on Friday night.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 7, 2018
Kim Jong Un sister to visit South Korea as part of Olympic delegation
In a stunning move, North Korea will dispatch the powerful younger sister of leader Kim Jong Un as part of a high-level delegation to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the South, Seoul said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 7, 2018
Abe and Pence say no divide on North Korea during Tokyo meeting, warn against Pyongyang’s ‘smile diplomacy’
Amid signs of a gradual thaw in inter-Korean relations, Prime Minister Abe and visiting U.S. Vice President Pence reaffirm the policy of maintaining “maximum pressure” on North Korea.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 6, 2018
North Korea calls Trump 'dolt-like' and compares 'bloody nose' strike to Iraq War run-up
Nuclear-armed North Korea unleashed a raft of insults and threats against the U.S. and its leader on Tuesday, calling Donald Trump "dolt-like" and comparing recent reports of a possible "bloody nose" limited strike against Pyongyang to the run-up to the Iraq War.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 5, 2018
Abe explains uncompromising stance on inserting 'explicit SDF mention' in Article 9
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is reluctant to compromise on the substance of constitutional amendments, emphasizing his commitment to the ambitious goal of altering the war-renouncing Article 9.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 5, 2018
Confronting South Korea's censored discourse on 'comfort women'
South Korea's censored discourse on 'comfort women' reflects an underlying, authoritarian-nationalist perspective in which Koreans portray themselves as innocent victims and dissenting voices to the anti-Japanese narrative undermine South Korea's moral power.
BUSINESS / Tech
Feb 5, 2018
South Korea says North stole cryptocurrency worth billions of won last year
South Korea said Monday that North Korea last year stole cryptocurrency from the South worth billions of won and that it was still trying to hack into its exchanges.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 3, 2018
North Korea earned $200 million from banned exports, U.N. report says
North Korea violated United Nations sanctions to earn nearly $200 million in 2017 from banned commodity exports, according to a confidential report by independent U.N. monitors, which also accused Pyongyang of supplying weapons to Syria and Myanmar.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 2, 2018
Top U.S. envoy says America not close to taking military action against North Korea
The U.S. special envoy for North Korea has said that while Washington was keeping all options on the table, he did not believe the United States was close to using military action to rein in Pyongyang's nuclear and missile ambitions.
Osamu Suzuki, who ran Suzuki Motor for five decades, dies at 94
Osamu Suzuki, a former president of Suzuki Motor, in October 2016
Uranium detected in extracted Fukushima nuclear fuel debris
Nuclear fuel debris recovered from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant No. 2 reactor
Flu cases surge above ‘warning’ levels in much of Japan
Authorities are calling for utmost vigilance as Japan heads into the New Year holiday season, when many people plan getaways.
Human error caused JAL jet collision at Haneda Airport: safety board
The wreckage of a Japan Airlines plane after a collision with a Japan Coast Guard aircraft, at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Jan. 5, three days after the crash.
Japan drivers warned to steer clear of drunk pedestrians sleeping on road
A transport ministry panel experiments with a dummy to determine how quickly a person lying on the road during the night would be spotted when drivers use low and high beam lights.
The cultural luminaries we lost in 2024
One of conductor Seiji Ozawa’s most enduring contributions is the Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival, which brings together young musicians and seasoned artists. The maestro passed away in February.
Bling-Bang, baby: The J-pop soundtrack of 2024
Hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts' uptempo “Bling-Bang-Bang-Born” quickly became a TikTok favorite after its release days into 2024, which helped turn the song into a Billboard Japan Hot 100 topper for 19 weeks before rising up viral streaming charts around the world.
Flu cases surge above ‘warning’ levels in much of Japan
Authorities are calling for utmost vigilance as Japan heads into the New Year holiday season, when many people plan getaways.
Dodgers voice Stephen Nelson paves way for Japanese Americans in media
Dodgers announcers Stephen Nelson and Jessica Mendoza pose with Ichiro Suzuki before a game against the Mariners in Seattle in 2023.
Start the new year not with one temple visit, but seven
At each shrine and temple, priests create festive, decorative go-shuin stamps, and you can collect the marks of all seven of the lucky gods on one piece of paper (called a shikishi) to serve as a good-luck talisman.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.
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