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ARTICLES BY JIYOUNG SOHN

South Korean lawmakers on December 14 voted to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol (image in the poster) from office for his failed attempt to impose martial law last week. (Photo: AFP)

South Korea impeaches President Yoon Suk Yeol over martial-law decision

4 min read . 14 Dec 2024

President Yoon Seok Yeol faced demands to resign after his short-lived attempt to impose martial law was voted down by lawmakers and brought thousands of protesters to the streets. (Photo: AFP)

South Korea’s martial-law chaos deepens, with a suicide attempt and raids

3 min read . 12 Dec 2024

Lee Jae-myung has declined to say whether he would seek the office of South Korean president again. (Tim Franco/Inland for WSJ)

He might be South Korea’s next president.

5 min read . 09 Dec 2024

Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung. Photo: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

South Korean president faces impeachment motion after declaring martial law

1 min read . 04 Dec 2024

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump stands on stage with former first lady Melania Trump, as Lara Trump watches, at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center on 6 November 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. (AP)

America’s friends and foes brace for a new world under Trump

6 min read . 06 Nov 2024

Though it is the world’s top memory-chip maker, Samsung is trailing its competitors in high-bandwidth memory chips, a type integral to AI computing. (AFP)

Samsung’s chip technologies fall behind in early innings of AI game

4 min read . 08 Oct 2024

At the centre of the dispute is Korea Zinc’s Onsan smelter in the city of Ulsan, South Korea, (Bloomberg)

The $1.7 billion takeover brawl fueled by a fear of China

6 min read . 29 Sep 2024

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s campus in Hsinchu, southwest of Taipei. Photo: An Rong Xu/Bloomberg News

Chip giants TSMC and Samsung discuss building middle eastern megafactories

4 min read . 23 Sep 2024

The South Korean show ‘Physical: 100’ has been a global success for Netflix. (Netflix)

Netflix is trying to get you hooked on more reality TV with better dubbing

4 min read . 01 Sep 2024

Climate activists gathered in Seoul on the day of the ruling. (Reuters)

South Korean children sued the government over climate policy. They just won.

3 min read . 29 Aug 2024

Electric vehicles await shipment at a port near Ulsan, South Korea. (Bloomberg)

German luxury, Chinese battery: Fire calls for disclosures on key EV component

2 min read . 13 Aug 2024

Police moved a burnt-out Mercedes-Benz electric vehicle from the underground parking lot of an apartment building in Incheon, South Korea, on Monday. Photo: Yonhap News/Zuma Press

Huge fire sparked by a Mercedes-Benz EV adds to safety concerns dogging industry

3 min read . 07 Aug 2024

Striking Samsung workers are demanding greater pay and benefits from the world’s largest memory-chip maker. REUTERS

The new threat to the chip industry: Worker unrest

5 min read . 26 Jul 2024

Since January, Samsung has rolled out many of the same AI features that Apple has promised, REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji (REUTERS)

To see the future of AI on iPhones, check out Samsung

5 min read . 10 Jul 2024

Emergency personnel and investigators examine the site the day after a fire at a lithium-battery factory owned by South Korean battery maker Aricell in Hwaseong 25 on June. (Photo by YONHAP / AFP) (AFP)

Lithium batteries are set to power the world—and pose new fire risks

4 min read . 25 Jun 2024

FILE PHOTO: Former FTX chief executive Sam Bankman-Fried. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli/File Photo (REUTERS)

Hedge funds made a killing on FTX—Then it got complicated

5 min read . 24 Jun 2024

People at an Apple store in Shanghai, China. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo/File Photo (REUTERS)

For Apple’s AI push, China is a missing piece

4 min read . 20 Jun 2024

Visitors watch a wafer shown on screens at the TSMC Renovation Museum at the Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu. The Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC announced on May 10, 2024 that its April earnings had jumped nearly 60% on year. (Photo: AFP)

Asia’s chip giants hustle to maintain their edge over the US

5 min read . 05 Jun 2024

Fu Bao returned to China in early April and now resides at a state-run panda sanctuary in the province of Sichuan.

China’s Panda diplomacy tested as fight erupts over Fu Bao

4 min read . 31 May 2024

The 2018 death of LG’s Koo Bon-moo left his family facing a tax bill worth hundreds of millions of dollars. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG NEWS

LG’s ruling family loses bid to reduce 50% inheritance-tax bill

2 min read . 04 Apr 2024