When South Korea’s newly elected president, Yoon Suk-yeol, was on the campaign trail, he rode a wave of anti-feminist public sentiment, appealing to young male voters who felt that their status was being threatened by gender equality policies. Observers expressed…
South Korean and other media are speculating that South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol intentionally shunned an in-person meeting with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in deference to China, South Korea’s biggest trading partner, whose leaders are furious over Pelosi’s recent…
Few publicly displayed artistic masterpieces languish in more profound obscurity than “Rakuchū rakugai-zu,” or “Scenes in and around the Capital,” a 17th-century pair of painted sixfold screens hidden away in Osaka’s seldom-visited Nanban Bunkakan Museum. Situated well off the downtown…