The region contributes about 50% of all new cancer cases (9.2 million) and over half of cancer deaths (5.1 million) worldwide each year.

Listen to this article On 4 April 2025, South Korea’s Constitutional Court unanimously ruled to remove the impeached president Yoon Suk-yeol, claiming he ‘violated the constitutional order and posed a ...

“I hope to step up cooperation between Japan and South Korea, and trilaterally with the United States, under President Lee Jae-myung on the occasion of the 60th anniversary” of the ...

As South Korea's election nears, Lee Jae-myung's approach to U.S.-China relations sparks debate, highlighting the geopolitical stakes of the race.

After decades of conceding shipbuilding to the Chinese, Koreans and Japanese, the world is waking up to the need for domestic ...

“South Korea’s strategic balance between the U.S. and China, which Lee Jae-myung’s administration is talking about, is not referring to a 50-50, perfectly equal balance,” Lee Byong-Chul, a ...

Mr. Lee represents a break from his impeached predecessor, Yoon Suk Yeol. Mr. Yoon was more confrontational toward North Korea and China, and he improved ties with Japan, a historic enemy, despite ...

Yoon joined initiatives such as the Chip 4 Alliance - a coalition of the US, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan aimed at reducing dependence on mainland China for semiconductor supply chains.

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South Korea’s new President Lee Jae-myung vowed Wednesday to restart dormant talks with North Korea and bolster a trilateral partnership with the U.S. and Japan, as he laid out key policy goals ...

Lee, previously accused by critics of tilting toward China and North Korea and away from the U.S. and Japan, has recently repeatedly stressed South Korea’s alliance with the U.S. as the ...