South Korea

South Korea’s Green Party makes history

Third time lucky for a candidate determined to disrupt the young democracy’s two-party system South Korea’s Green Party has won its first-ever local council seat in the mid-eastern city of...

Where South Korea’s seasonal workers program went wrong

An investigation into foreign labour on the country’s oyster farms reveals how illegal brokers are profiting off exploitation. In South Korea, where half of the population resides in the Seoul metropolitan...

When a city loses its name

Fifteen years after Masan, Jinhae and Changwon were merged into a single “megacity”, residents still grapple with the loss of their local identities and autonomy “Everything was taken away, even...

Housing for All? Korea’s quiet experiment

The collapse of the long-term lease system has left many Koreans exposed to unexpected risks. In an interview with Slow News, Choi Kyung-ho discusses how social housing might change that....

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