South Koreans blame themselves for ferry tragedy
With nearly 300 missing, Koreans indulge a culture of shame.
Geoffrey Cain
Kim Yuna and the Korean art of suffering
How Kim Yuna’s Olympic loss weighs on the heart of a nation.
South Korea: It’s a nice day for a shady wedding
Weddings here are so grandiose, they sometimes bankrupt couples. Other times, they’re used to launder bribes.
Incarceration in North Korea: 5 Americans who got out
As Kenneth Bae pleads for release, here’s how five Americans won freedom from the Kim clan’s wardens — including one who founded a university in Pyongyang.
Treating garment workers in Cambodia as terrorists
Exclusive: Why South Korea shares blame for violence against strikers who stitch your clothes.
South Korea urged Cambodia’s military to crack down on protesters
As workers who stitch for Western brands demand a livable wage, South Korea urged Cambodian forces to protect corporate interests.
Unable to afford Gangnam-style plastic surgery, Korean teens deploy DIY methods
South Korea is plastic-surgery obsessed. The results aren’t always pretty.
How the Iran nuclear deal matters for North Korea
South Koreans react to whether their nuclear-armed neighbor will ever follow suit.
Why did North Korea detain an American veteran?
The detention of 85-year-old Merrill Newman is perplexing and opaque, even by North Korean standards.
Kim Jong Un and the birth of a personality cult
The North Korean leader’s numerous laurels include basketball star, fashion icon and honorary Nigerian.
Will Asia’s economies benefit from fracking?
The US economy has received a major boost from the controversial drilling technology. China may (or may not) be next.
Kim Jong who? Meet the cabal that really runs North Korea
Legend aside, the boy despot doesn’t do everything himself. Here’s the power pantheon he shares power with.
North Korea’s food conundrum
Many North Koreans are undernourished, the United Nations says. Can the beginnings of a so-called agricultural reform put food in their mouths?
How China chokes its neighbors
Asia’s latest diplomatic flashpoint? Air pollution.
North Korea sees surge of drug-resistant tuberculosis
By Geoffrey Cain and Jessica Phelan
Drug-resistant TB is the latest health crisis to strike North Korea, where medical progress has suffered under Western sanctions.
Japan’s yakuza gang wars
Facing a shrinking pot of spoils, five mafia syndicates are waging an unusually vicious gang war in the coastal prefecture of Fukuoka.
Artisan coffee comes to North Korea
In Pyongyang, one new coffeeshop serves a hip and cosmopolitan roast.
South Korea and China’s so-called honeymoon
With North Korea gone haywire, can South Korea win over its powerful and often difficult neighbor, China?
Chinese tourism companies ordered to halt overland travel to North Korea amid tensions
By Freya Petersen and Geoffrey Cain
Tour companies at North Korea and China’s biggest border crossing were ordered to suspend trips owing to Pyongyang’s war rhetoric.
As Korean war rhetoric rises, separated families lose hope
Members of thousands of families separated during the Korean War wonder whether they will meet again.
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