A Guggenheim exhibition shines a light on a remarkable but lesser-known art scene in South Korea that thrived in the tumult of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Seafood Is Safe After Fukushima Discharge, But Some Won’t Eat It
Sushi is among several shunned foods as Japan dumps treated radioactive water into the Pacific. Experts say the fear is irrational but understandable.
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Dissident Who Fled China by Jet Ski Said to Have Planned Escape for Years
Officials in South Korea aren’t saying who crossed 200 miles of ocean to reach its shores. But people who know Kwon Pyong say it wasn’t his first audacious move.
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Radioactive Water Is Complicating Japan and Korea’s New Friendship
Japan’s plan to discharge treated water from its destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant has triggered a backlash in the region, especially in highly polarized South Korea.
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U.S.-Japan-South Korea Security Pact Likely to Deepen China’s Dismay
What its signers, Japan, South Korea and the United States, call deterrence, China characterizes as encirclement, even provocation.