SEOUL–Yoo Young Yi’s grandmother gave birth to six children. Her mother birthed two. Yoo doesn’t want any. “My husband and I like babies so much … but there are things that we’d have to sacrifice if we raised kids,” said … Read more
Eskom’s Ankerlig station. Photo: Getty Images Eskom has run out of cash to buy diesel. The embattled power company says it will not overspend as in the past. The implication is deep, with protracted load shedding on the cards. For … Read more
I met my first South Korean robots as I checked into the Henn na Hotel in Seoul at the end of a 21-hour journey from the U.S.: two plane flights and a bleary-eyed ride on the transit rail. To the … Read more
In deciphering the global polycrisis it can be helpful to break down the interplay of crisis dynamics into regional systems. The EU and its neighborhood, for instance, is one such region, tied together by political institutions, economics and geopolitics. Geography … Read more
Apr 16th 2022 JOHANNESBURG “I AM DISTRAUGHT because I am about to finish my last jar,” says Irine Mboweni, a resident of Johannesburg and mother of two. “There is no Marmite on the shelves and I do not know what … Read more
“By the time we knew about it, it was fully established,” Karim said. “Based on the proportion of sequences that come back as omicron, I’d say we are probably between two and three weeks ahead of the U.S., about two … Read more
Image Source : AP. People with masks walk at a shopping mall in Johannesburg, South Africa. Highlights WHO identified the new South African strain as one of concern Hospitals have not been overburdened by Omicron patients, says official At the … Read more
Years of drought have dropped the Parana river to levels not seen in 77 years, disrupting energy, commerce and ecology along its nearly 5,000 km route to the sea The Parana, South America’s second-largest river behind only the Amazon, has … Read more
SEOUL—Google and Apple Inc. will have to open their app stores to alternative payment systems in South Korea, threatening their lucrative commissions on digital sales. A bill passed Tuesday by South Korea’s National Assembly is the first in the world … Read more
South Korea is a multidimensional middle power. South Korea, with a population of fifty million, ranks number ten in terms of GDP according to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in 2021. South Korea’s military with six hundred thousand … Read more