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SOUTH KOREA

The Imperial Palace and the Marunouchi business district in Tokyo
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2026
South Korea’s wealth fund to tap alternative assets with Tokyo office
It will be the fund’s sixth overseas outpost, joining offices in New York, London, Singapore, Mumbai and San Francisco.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang leaves the SK Hynix booth during the annual Computex exhibition in Taipei on Tuesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 4, 2026
Nvidia CEO mounts charm push in South Korea with TV talk show and baseball appearances
Jensen Huang is returning to South Korea with a charm offensive that reflects the country’s rising importance in AI chips, robotics and the next wave of physical AI.
The won fell on Wednesday and was a whisker away from 1,536.95 per dollar, the lowest level since 2009.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2026
South Korea pledges action to curb volatility as won nears 2009 low
South Korea joins authorities in Indonesia and the Philippines in stepping up measures to defend currencies as elevated oil prices hurt the region’s importers.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspects a newly inaugurated nuclear materials production factory at an undisclosed location in the country in this image released Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2026
North Korea’s Kim says ‘newly inaugurated’ nuke site opens door to ‘larger plans’
Kim Jong Un said the suspected uranium-enrichment facility will help create an “environment for going into the new next-stage of bolstering up the nuclear forces.”
A man votes with his daughter at a polling station in Seoul on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2026
South Korea’s left wins big in nationwide vote but loses Seoul
The victory of President Lee Jae Myung’s party symbolizes the strength of Lee’s popularity and highlights how the opposition People Power Party is struggling to rebuild itself.
A Danish flag flies in front of Christiansborg Palace, which houses Denmark's parliament, in Copenhagen on March 18.
WORLD
Jun 4, 2026
South Korean adoptees sue Denmark over right to know birth families
South Korea sent more than 140,000 children overseas for adoption between 1955 and 1999, according to an official inquiry in the country.
Aircraft parked at Incheon International Airport
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2026
South Korea and China agree first expansion in flight rights in seven years
The deal would make it easier to add flights on high-demand routes such as ​Incheon to Shanghai and Incheon ⁠to Guangzhou, where existing rights had been fully used by both sides.
Park Gyeong-je, 65, a migratory beekeeper, stands among beehives at an acquaintance's family gravesite where he received permission from the family to keep hives as a second location for migratory beekeeping in Okcheon, South Korea, on May 13.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jun 4, 2026
A South Korean beekeeper counts the cost of climate change
Rising temperatures are disrupting South Korea’s beekeeping industry, as earlier blooms, harsher weather and disease cut honey production and put pressure on migratory farmers.
U.S. Gen. Xavier Brunson, the top American military official in South Korea, greets a soldier during a U.S.-South Korea joint river-crossing exercise in Yeoncheon, South Korea, in March.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 3, 2026
North Korea slams U.S. remarks comparing South to ‘dagger’
U.S. Gen. Xavier Brunson made the comments in an interview as speculation builds that Washington may seek to expand the role of U.S. Forces Korea in countering China’s influence.
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at a news conference in Andong, South Korea, last month. Since winning office, Lee has been riding a wave of support that has consistently hovered around the 60% mark in opinion polls.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 3, 2026
South Korea’s Lee faces first election test one year into office
Though thousands of municipal council seats nationwide are up for grabs, attention will likely focus on 17 governor and mayoral races in South Korea’s biggest cities.
A patient is wheeled into Saint Mary’s Hospital at the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul on Feb. 25, 2024.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 2, 2026
South Korea drops gender-neutral hospital room plan after backlash
Countries such as Japan and Canada have gender-neutral facilities, which has sparked pushback from critics who express privacy and safety concerns.
A screen shows South Korea's benchmark stock index surpassing 8,000 points in a foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul on May 15.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 2, 2026
South Korea overtakes India as world’s sixth-largest stock market
Memory chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix have powered the country’s equity surge.
A photo on the front page of The Japan Times on Sunday, June 27, 1976, shows a moment from the fight between Antonio Aoki and Muhammad Ali.
JAPAN / History
Jun 2, 2026
Japan Times 1976: Inoki sits on his fortune as Ali dances to the bank
The Ali-Inoki super fight drew global attention, then baffled fans with 15 rounds of tactical stalemate.
A Korea Electric Power Corporation vehicle enters the main gate at the Hanwha Aerospace plant in Daejeon, South Korea, on Monday after a reported explosion.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 1, 2026
Five dead, two injured after blast at Hanwha Aerospace plant in South Korea
A fire official ⁠said that an explosion had triggered the blaze, though the cause of the blast was still ⁠being investigated.
U.S. Forces Korea commander Gen. Xavier Brunson greets a Thai representative at the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
May 31, 2026
U.S. and South Korea in talks over American commander’s remarks on China
The incident occurred amid growing speculation that Washington may expand its role in countering the growing regional influence of China, a key ally of North Korea and Russia.
Japanese rock band Sakanaction gained belated attention worldwide after its 2012 song “Yoru no Odoriko” was paired with a viral video of an Indonesian preteen’s dance.
CULTURE / Music
May 29, 2026
Sakanaction’s overseas breakthrough came from a viral dance meme
A video of an Indonesian preteen dancing on a boat became the unlikely springboard for Japanese rockers Sakanaction to gain global attention.
Koshi Mizukami (right) plays a rookie police detective who teams up with a South Korean counterpart (Jung Yunho) to tackle an international crime syndicate in the Kabukicho red-light district.
CULTURE / Film
May 29, 2026
Crime and comic antics abound in ‘Tokyo Burst: The Roundup’
Set in the same universe as a hit South Korean series, “Tokyo Burst: The Roundup” mashes up a cartoonish aesthetic with gripping violence.
Samsung Electronics is the world’s biggest supplier of the memory chips that go into everything from smartphones and electric vehicles to servers at artificial intelligence data centers.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 27, 2026
Samsung workers accept wage deal that averts chip plant strike
The agreement avoids what could have been a damaging strike for Samsung and the tech industry amid shortages in the memory chip sector.
People board the South Korean KSS-III submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Chang-ho, at the home port of Canada's Pacific fleet following exercises, at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt near Victoria, British Columbia, on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 26, 2026
South Korea aims to launch first nuclear-powered submarine by mid-2030s
The move could reshape Asia’s security landscape and escalate an underwater arms ⁠race.
A woman watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at the main train station in Seoul on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 26, 2026
North Korea fires ballistic missile into Yellow Sea
Pyongyang may using the missiles tests to take advantage of eroding international norms to cement its nuclear status.
China’s demand for Soviet-style apartments shows limits to revival
Apartments built during a Soviet Union-inspired construction drive in the 1970s and 1980s tend to suffer from poor insulation and outdated plumbing, but they are seeing a revival in interest due to their attractive locations.
Japanese scientists identify neural mechanism that may explain why we dislike people
The aggressive mouse (left) used in the experiment and a mouse defending itself
Japanese payment processor’s collapse hits banks and restaurants
Zentoshin served around 200,000 shops, many of which rely on early payments to maintain cash flow, raising concerns over their financial stability following the disruption.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
Lenders seek $700 million after Japanese payments firm’s collapse
The financial failure of Osaka-based Zentoshin has left 63 creditors with claims totaling ¥115.16 billion, according to Tokyo Shoko Research.
Japan’s largest exhibition of women photographers rights a wrong in cultural history
Miwa Yanagi’s “Elevator Girl House” series skewers the superficiality of gender roles through staged images.
Over 70% of accommodations in Japan say they are understaffed amid tourism influx
The number of foreign visitors to Japan reached a high of 42.68 million in 2025.
‘Princess Mononoke’ comes alive in Super Kabuki staging
The “Princess Mononoke” adaptation was created under Shochiku’s Super Kabuki initiative, a modern form of kabuki with more technology in staging and open to pop culture collaborations.
The beating heart inside ‘Human Vapor’
Different forms of love and connection form the emotional backbone of Netflix’s “Human Vapor,” says actor Shun Oguri, who plays troubled detective Kenji Okamoto.
Japan bets on character IP to drive global growth
Born on social media platforms in 2022, Opanchu Usagi has become a major hit, especially among Generation Z.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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