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  • 1 week ago | scmp.com | David Lee

    It was an early summer day and, without a cloud in the sky, the temperature in Seoul Olympic Park hit 28 degrees Celsius (82 degrees Fahrenheit). But the rising heat did not deter Elena Joo from attending this year’s Seoul Jazz Festival, with international headliners such as Thundercat, Jacob Collier and Lany, as well as chart-topping home favourites like Crush, Epik High and Jannabi.

  • 3 weeks ago | aljazeera.com | David Lee

    Seoul, South Korea - After six hours of emergency martial law, hundreds of days of protests, violence at a Seoul court and the eventual impeachment of President Yoon Suk-yeol, South Korea is now hours away from choosing a new leader in the hope of restoring stability to an unsettled nation. From 6am to 8pm on Tuesday (21:00 to 11:00 GMT), South Koreans will vote for one of five presidential candidates in a race led largely by the opposition Democratic Party's Lee Jae-myung.

  • 3 weeks ago | aljazeera.com | Lyndal Rowlands |David Lee

  • 4 weeks ago | aljazeera.com | David Lee

    Sejong, South Korea - By the standards of South Korea's teeming metropolises, Sejong is not much of a city. With a population of 400,000 people, Sejong, a planned city located about 100km (62 miles) south of Seoul, does not even crack the top 20 urban centres. Recommended Stories But if South Korea's likely next president has his way, Sejong could soon become the country's "de facto" capital.

  • 1 month ago | scmp.com | David Lee

    NewJeans’ abrupt disappearance from the K-pop spotlight has shaken South Korea’s multibillion-dollar music industry – not just because of the group’s meteoric rise and global reach, but for what the saga reveals about increasingly blurred lines of power and the fragile nature of artist-label relations in the world’s most systematised pop machine.

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