SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s delivery workers have fallen into what they call a “legal blind spot” and say it’s a deadly place to be as the novel coronavirus drives an unprecedented boom in online business. Labour rights have made huge progress in South Korea over the past couple of […]
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BTS Faces Backlash in China Over Korean War Comments
K-pop supergroup BTS has risen to become one of the world’s most popular musical acts, but just three days before its company Big Hit Entertainment’s big IPO, it was hit with an unexpected stumbling block in the Chinese market: a single sentence about world history that has sent brands fleeing. […]
South Korean students forced online as global virus crisis deepens
Millions of South Korean students were ordered back to online classes Tuesday and Mexico launched a nationwide televised schooling programme, highlighting the deepening crisis for children as the coronavirus pandemic drags into a ninth month. The school closures were part of new measures in many parts of the to halt […]