Seyoon Kim

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a press conference marking two years in office at the presidential office in Seoul on May 09, 2024. (Photo by SONG Kyung-Seok / POOL / AFP) (Photo by SONG KYUNG-SEOK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

South Korea’s president is establishing a new ministry to boost the country’s birth rate, the world’s lowest, after a bruising election loss

By Soo-Hyang Choi, Shinhye Kang, and others

A doctor holds a placard reading “Stop populist medical policy!” during a rally to protest against the government’s plan to raise the annual enrolment quota at medical schools, near the presidential office in Seoul on February 21, 2024. Pregnant women had C-sections cancelled and cancer treatments were postponed on February 21, as the number of South Korean trainee doctors to walk off the job over proposed reforms swelled, officials and local reports said. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP) (Photo by JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images)

Korean doctors are some of the best-paid in the world. Now many are refusing to work to protest plans to make it easier to attend medical school

By Jenny Lee, Seyoon Kim, and others

North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un Visits Vietnam

North Korea Wants ‘Reckless’ Pompeo Out and Tests New Weapon

By Seyoon Kim, Youkyung Lee, and others