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Lee Seon-wu, 94, a former South Korean soldier, lost three fingers and was captured by Chinese troops during a fierce battle in the eastern Gangwon province in the final days of the Korean War, speaks during an interview at his home in Gimpo, South Korea, on June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

POWs, abductees, defectors and separated families are the legacy of the Korean War

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

FILE - South Korean adoptee Adam Crapser speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, on Jan. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

South Korea court clears government, adoption agency of liability in adoptee’s deportation from U.S.

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

South Korean national flags fly at half-staff at a government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024, a day after a jetliner skidded off a runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into flames at an airport the town of Muan. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

South Korea to inspect Boeing aircraft as it struggles to find cause of plane crash that killed 179

By Hyung-jin Kim and Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Han Tae-soon speaks during a press conference in front of the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea Monday, Oct. 7, 2024 before she sues her government, an adoption agency and an orphanage over the adoption of her daughter. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

South Korean woman sues government and adoption agency after her kidnapped daughter was sent abroad

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Flags of South Korea and the United States flutter outside of the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History in Seoul, South Korea, on April 25, 2023. The South Korean and U.S. militaries were set to begin massive live-fire drills near the border with North Korea on Thursday, May 25, 2023, despite the North’s warning that it won’t tolerate what it calls such a hostile invasion rehearsal on its doorstep. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)

Former CIA official charged with being secret agent for South Korean intelligence

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

Members of the Gyeonggi Province Medical Association stage a rally against the government's medical policy near the presidential office in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. South Korea's government criticized senior doctors at a major hospital Tuesday for threatening to resign in support of the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations. The banners read "Stop President Yoon Suk Yeol government's medical policy." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Why are striking doctors in South Korea facing license suspensions and what’s next?

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean Interior and Safety Minister Lee Sang-min, center, speaks during a joint government briefing at the government complex in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. South Korea on Wednesday officially ordered thousands of striking doctors to return to work immediately, a step that could lead to legal punishments if the doctors don't end their walkouts, which have caused numerous cancellations of surgeries and other treatments at hospitals. (Kim Do-hoon/Yonhap via AP)

South Korean government warns striking doctors to return to work or face legal action

By Hyung-Jin Kim - Associated Press

Peter Møller, attorney and co-head of the Danish Korean Rights Group, speaks during a news conference in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Dozens of South Korean adoptees who were sent to Danish parents as children in the 1970s and ‘80s have formally demanded Tuesday, Aug 23, 2022, the South Korean government investigate the circumstances surrounding their adoptions, which they say were corrupted by systemic practices that falsified or obscured children's origins. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Danish adoptees call for South Korea to probe adoption issues

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, center, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, on June 8, 2020. South Korea's president will pardon billionaire Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong a year after he was released on parole after serving 18 months in prison over his involvement in a massive corruption scandal that triggered waves of protests and toppled a presidency. The decision by President Yoon Suk Yeol was announced by his justice minister on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon. File)

South Korea to pardon Samsung’s Lee, other corporate giants

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

In this Dec. 22, 2010, file photo, a government ship sails past the South Korean Navy's floating base as the sun rises near Yeonpyeong island, South Korea. A South Korean official who disappeared off a government ship near the disputed sea boundary with North Korea this week may be in North Korea, South Korea's Defense Ministry said Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)

Seoul: North Korea kills South Korean official, burns his body

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

Alina Zagitova of the Olympic Athletes of Russia performs during the women's short program figure skating in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

The Latest: Zagitova gives Russians 1st gold in Pyeongchang

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Korean Broadcasting System employees in Seoul try to recover a computer server on Thursday, March 21, 2013, a day after a cyberattack caused computer networks at the company and six South Korean banks to crash. (AP Photo/Korean Broadcasting System)

South Korea to augment cyberwar defenses after attack on banks, broadcasters

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

South Korea: Chinese address source of attack

By SAM KIM - Associated Press

SKorea says Samsung chip plant caused cancer

By YOUKYUNG LEE - Associated Press

S. Korea says Samsung chip plant caused cancer

By Youkyung Lee - Associated Press

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