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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

The proposed Tattooist Act would grant official licences to artists, transforming a once-taboo art form into a regulated profession and reshaping the country’s tattoo culture.