North Korea’s wealth gap is reportedly widening, as luxury goods circulate among affluent border residents while ordinary citizens face growing extreme poverty. According to Daily NK on Nov. 22, ...

Wealthy residents living near the border with China are buying high-end luxury items brought in by ethnic Chinese traders.

The Seoul Metropolitan Government has launched a pilot program to provide free female sanitary products at 10 public facilities in the South Korean capital, including the Seoul Museum of Art and the ...

At a meeting with journalists on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Russia fears a harsh reaction from China to the issue of attracting military personnel from North Korea to participate ...

He told BI it was surprising that the tour guides didn't try to hide the country's poverty. The influencer has visited almost every country in the world — he has just two more to go. I've wanted to ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — When summer heat comes to the Arara neighborhood in northern Rio, it lingers, baking the red brick and concrete that make up many of the buildings long after the sun has gone ...

When Lee Myung-bak was inaugurated as the 10th president of South Korea in February 2008, it was an astonishing outcome for a poor boy from Pohang, whose No. 1 dream had been simply to get a job.

Forgive my personal note this time, but within days of this article being published, I will celebrate 60 years since my first ...