A record 1.17 million foreign patients sought medical care in Korea last year, driven largely by a surge in young Japanese women flocking to Seoul's dermatology clinics for quick and affordable ...

In South Korea, makeup, skincare, and plastic surgery have dominated social hierarchies. But young women who spent hundreds on beauty products are now resisting these beauty standards. Author Elise Hu ...

Authorities investigated a Socialist Women’s Union of Korea (SWUK) organization in Chongjin after it failed to regularly hold ...

Two women face being sent to a labour camp after allegedly paying a medical school drop-out to fit them with breast implants smuggled in from China.

North Koreans have been ordered to check women for “un-socialist” and “bourgeois” breast implants. The edict to Communist ...

The final round of the EAFF E-1 Championship (East Asian Cup) saw four teams competing in a league format across three matchdays. In preliminary rounds held in late 2023, North Korea qualified to ...

North Korea has launched a crackdown on breast enhancement and other forms of plastic surgery. One surgeon and two women, accused of getting breast implants, have already faced a public trial in the ...

Too often, the worst effects of climate change are experienced by those who contribute the least. Few people feel this more deeply than the Haenyeo women of Jeju Island, off South Korea. This ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Three years after the 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online fake images that depicted her nude, she is still being treated for trauma. She struggles to talk ...

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said it is a duty of women to halt a fall in the country’s births in order to strengthen national power, state media said Monday, as his government steps up ...

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un implored women in the East Asian country to have more children and raise them as "communists," and wept as he delivered the emotional address to an enraptured ...

On August 8, Haenam County and the US Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at the clubhouse of Pine Beach Country Club (Pine Beach CC) in Haenam for ...