South Korea became the top cosmetics exporter to the United States last year, surpassing France for the first time, as the global appetite for Korean beauty products continues to grow. Bloomberg reported on March 31 that South Korea exported $1.

Wildfires in South Korea are now the largest and deadliest on record, having burned more forest and killed more people than any previous blaze, officials said Thursday, as the death toll hit 27. More than a dozen fires broke out over the weekend, scorching wide swathes of the southeast and forcing around 37,000 people to flee.

South Korean adoption agencies sent children abroad like "luggage" for decades, labelling some as orphans when they had parents and sending alternative babies when infants had died before heading overseas,

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