In South Korea, a country renowned for its modernity, a woman was subjected to an act of extreme violence simply because of ...

Former Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha was formally appointed as South Korea's ambassador to the United States on Wednesday, becoming Seoul's first female envoy to Washington, according to the foreign ...

A growing number of South Korean women are training to be morticians, a field from which they had long been excluded, amid changing views on gender roles and a rising preference for women's bodies to ...

As of 2021, there were an estimated 350,000 tattoo artists in the country, according to ... tattoo artists in South Korea have been subjected to threats or reported by disgruntled clients. A female ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Gender Equality to be Priority for New Administration On Tuesday, South Korea ...

South Korea remains the only country in the developed world with such a regulation ... but she still remembers the panic that seized her. Lim said some female tattooists have suffered sexual assaults ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a ...

A zombie drama, a TV series about a supernatural nurse and one about an antisocial children's book author helped turn South Korea into one of Netflix's biggest sources of growth in the international ...