South Korea has shuttered over 4,000 schools since 1980, the Education Ministry revealed this week, as the nation grapples with a catastrophic plunge in birth rates and plummeting student enrollment.
South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang, often dubbed the “Amazon of Korea,” has announced a $1.17 billion compensation plan following a massive data breach that exposed sensitive information of 34 million users.
South Korean President Lee Jae-myung used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to cast his nation’s modern history as evidence of the global body’s success and to call for renewed multilateral cooperation to confront a host of global challenges—from armed conflict to artificial intelligence. Lee also used the occasion to reaffirm his administration’s controversial stance of détente toward North Korea and to defend democratic gains at home following the removal of his predecessor.
More than 300 South Korean workers arrested during an ICE raid at a Hyundai electric battery factory in southeast Georgia last week are still being held, as their expected return flight has been delayed. Their release, previously agreed upon, has been pushed back “due to circumstances on the U.S. side,” according to Seoul’s Foreign Ministry.
