a second ago Refugee status granted for Ugandan woman who fled over domestic violence

A South Korean court has recently granted refugee status to a Ugandan woman who fled her country to escape severe domestic violence, court officials said Tuesday. The Seoul Administrative Court ruled in favor of the woman, who had filed a lawsuit against the Seoul Immigration Office to overturn a previous decision denying her refugee status, on September 25. The court determined that she demonstrated a well-founded fear of persecution and was not adequately protected by her home country. Judges

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a second ago Complaint filed against writer who called Han Kang's historic Nobel win 'shameful and sad'

A South Korean civic group on Monday said it has filed a complaint against a local writer alleging she has defamed Han Kang, the first Korean and first Asian woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature. The group, Citizens' Solidarity for the Eradication of Deeply-rooted Corruption, accused Kim Gyu-na of a "politically-motivated and personal attack against an individual that not only exceeds the limits of freedom of expression guaranteed by the Constitution, but also goes beyond bound

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a second ago [Oddities] What's in a name? How Koreans faked their way to Kim, Lee and Park

If you meet a South Korean, there's a 45 percent chance that their surname is either Kim, Lee or Park. And there’s an even higher probability -- some say nearly 90 percent -- that their surname originates from a bogus family tree. According to the latest census data from Statistics Korea, these three surnames account for nearly half the population, which is over 20 million people. Expand that to the top 10 surnames, and you're looking at 64 percent of the population. This remarka

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a second ago N. Korea spurns alleged troop dispatch to aid Russia in Ukraine as 'groundless rumors'

North Korea on Monday dismissed as "groundless rumors" the accusations from South Korea and Ukraine that it is sending soldiers to fight alongside Russia in the war in Ukraine, arguing that its relations with Moscow are "legitimate and cooperative." It was the first public comment from a North Korean official since South Korea's spy agency last week said the North had decided to send around 12,000 troops to fight Russia's war in Ukraine, and it had already dispatche

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3 hours ago South Korea calls for withdrawal of alleged North Korean troops in Russia

South Korea calls for withdrawal of alleged North Korean troops in Russia  Business Standard

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6 hours ago Seoul protests to Russia over North Korean troops’ likely deployment in Ukraine

Seoul protests to Russia over North Korean troops’ likely deployment in Ukraine  South China Morning Post

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7 hours ago South Korea demands withdrawal of North Korean troops allegedly helping Russia fight Ukraine

South Korea demands withdrawal of North Korean troops allegedly helping Russia fight Ukraine  WFIW

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13 hours ago South Korea summons Russian ambassador over alleged North Korean troop deployment to Ukraine

South Korea summons Russian ambassador over alleged North Korean troop deployment to Ukraine  Euromaidan Press

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15 hours ago [History through films] ‘Hunt’ spy flick set in Korea’s violent, chaotic ’80s

South Korea in the 1980s is often described as an era of violence and chaos. The period was marked by numerous major events in South Korean history, among them: the Gwangju Democratic Uprising in 1980 in which the military cracked down on civilians leading to a massacre; one of the largest fraud cases to date involving Jang Young-ja, a woman associated with then-President Chun Doo-hwan’s wife’s family in 1982; the Oct. 9, 1983 assassination attempt on Chun in Yangon, Myanmar in which

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