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South Korea

July 2024

  • Jung Yu-mi on the sofa looks over her shoulder

    Sleep review – deviously twisty new parenthood-themed Korean thriller

    Jason Yu’s enjoyably tense debut feature​ explores whether a sleep-deprived mother’s growing fear of her husband ​is justified
  • Night fever … Lee Sun-kyun and Jung Yu-mi in Sleep.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Sleep review – marriage unravels in gleeful Korean somnambulist psycho-chiller

    Lee Sun-kyun appears posthumously in one of his best performances as an actor struggling to control his night-time excursions in this elegant and intimate horror
  • The logo of the Samsung Electronics Co outside the Samsung Electronics Seocho building in Seoul, South Korea

    Samsung Electronics workers to extend strike indefinitely

    Campaign for better pay and benefits stepped up, says union representing about 30,000 staff in South Korea

June 2024

  • The South Korean president, Yoon Suk-yeol, boards the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier during the trilateral ‘Freedom Edge’ military exercise.

    North Korea says drills by South Korea, US and Japan show nations have developed ‘Asian Nato’

  • A visitor takes a photo near a wire fence decorated with ribbons.

    North Korea executed man for distributing K-pop, report from defectors shows

  • South Korean soldiers patrol near a barbed wire fence along the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea.

    ‘The scariest place on earth’: inside the DMZ as tensions between North and South Korea rise

  • Incheon airport in Seoul

    Rubbish-filled North Korea balloons prompt closure of Seoul airport

  • Seventeen: who are the first K-pop act to appear on Glastonbury’s main stage?

  • Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: Southern China hit by floods as north suffers from drought

  • ‘A return to the cold war’: Putin and Kim have joined forces as global delinquents

  • Ukraine war live
    Russia-Ukraine war: EU to open enlargement talks with Ukraine and Moldova next week – as it happened

  • TV review
    Agents of Mystery review – a gameshow that is pure escapist joy

  • North Korea troop ‘casualties’ reported after landmine explosions in DMZ

  • ‘My face is leaking’: taste testing the spicy ramen deemed too dangerous for Denmark

  • Too hot for Denmark: taste testing spicy ramen recalled from supermarket shelves - video

  • US and South Korea sound warning amid reports Putin is headed to North Korea

  • Denmark recalls South Korean firm’s instant noodles for being too spicy

  • Jin from BTS wraps up military service to the strains of K-pop hit Dynamite

  • South Korea says it fired ‘warning shots’ after North Korean soldiers crossed border

  • Next Sohee review – Korean high schooler traumatised by call centre internship

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