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South Korea to step up US trade talks before tariffs kick in on August 1

South Korea said it planned to intensify trade talks with the United States and considered U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for a 25% tariff from August 1 as effectively extending a grace period on implementing the duties.

The Washington Post on MSN · 14h

Japan, South Korea scramble as Trump threatens to raise tariffs

Japan and South Korea, the United States’ closest security allies in Asia and key partners in its effort to counter China, were sent scrambling Tuesday after the U.S. president renewed his threat to impose steep tariffs on their goods,

The New York Times · 14h

South Korea Keeps Its Chin Up as Trump Wields Tariff Threat

The country’s new president, in office for a little over a month, had just dispatched his senior deputies to Washington to try to work out a trade deal.

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He knows he was adopted from South Korea. The rest is a troubling mystery.

He thought he was born on April 28, 1988, in a clinic in Anyang, South Korea, about 11 miles south of Seoul. He was told that ...

Human Rights Watch1h

South Korea: Older Workers’ Low-Paid, Precarious Work

South Korea’s age-based employment laws and policies discriminate against older workers, forcing them to retire from main ...

Big tech rules, agriculture among issues in US trade talks with South Korea

South Korea was one of the first countries to start U.S. trade talks when both sides agreed in April to craft a package aimed ...

My night with the guerrilla balloonists of South Korea

Inside a covert operation to bombard North Korea with pantyhose and nature films. In the summer winds, South Korean activists loft huge makeshift balloons filled with subversive materials and hygiene ...

South Korea: Heavy rain floods parts of Seoul after record heat

Seoul: A sudden downpour flooded roads and disrupted public transport in parts of Seoul on Tuesday, hours after the South Korean capital recorded its hottest early July temperature in more than ...