North Korean border city locked down over suspected Covid-19 case
Over 33,000 North Koreans have fled to South Korea over the past 2 decades to avoid poverty and political suppression, mostly via the porous border …
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Crazy ‘Poor’ Asians: Postscript to the Oscars
It makes poverty and lack of access to wealth funny and distracting. Setting it in the bustling economy of South Korea makes the depiction of squalor …
‘Parasite’: South Korea’s barrier-breaking satire
South Korean thriller “Parasite” — a dark comedy about modern poverty and wealth that has brought down language barriers to open new audiences …
What Parasite misses about inequality in South Korea
South Korea went from poverty to affluence in the space of a generation, but growth increasingly appears to be grinding to a halt. That’s leaving many …
Vietnam, RoK enhance youth exchange
Over the past years, five Vietnamese delegations were sent to the Republic of Korea (RoK) to learn from the country’s experience in poverty reduction …
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