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Dongduk women’s university in Seoul was set up to help women in a deeply patriarchal society, but a demographic crisis is putting that under pressure

Japanese officials hold memorial ceremony at Sado Island Gold Mines, sparking controversy over omission of acknowledging forced labor, straining Japan-Sout...

A final week-long round of talks on a treaty to end plastic pollution has opened in Busan, South Korea, with deep differences between nations emerging almost immediately. The ‘high ambition coalition' – which includes France – will be fighting for a legally binding framework that will definitively curtail global plastic…

Man, 26, doubled food intake to deliberatly gain weight, the court heard

South Korea has paid tribute to wartime Korean forced laborers at Japan’s Sado Island Gold Mines in a memorial ceremony

Negotiators are gathering in South Korea in what’s billed as a final push to address the global crisis of plastic pollution

The 26-year-old, who now works behind a desk at a government agency, had his methods uncovered by officials

Negotiators are meeting in Busan, South Korea, for talks to agree a global plastic pollution treaty.

Japan's memorial ceremony at Sado Island Gold Mines, marred by South Korea's boycott, highlights historical tensions over Korean forced labor during WWII.