Even before Trump, U.S. leaders complained about the lack of American cars in Asia, pointing to trade or regulatory barriers. But the reasons Asian consumers don’t buy American cars are far less complicated.

Americans often come to South Korea and balk at the glut of high-rise apartments, seen as soulless, sterile, suffocating. But as cities like LA face severe housing crises, there is something to be said about the very different idea of homes behind them:.

Growing political gaps between men and women are being observed all over the world — including in South Korea, where a recent presidential election showed a staggering 40 percent point difference between 20-something men and women.

The prospects of Trump wooing back Kim Jong Un were already looking rather dim, but his strike on Iran might have been the final nail in the coffin. In my latest:.

A group of 105 South Koreans — led by a lawyer who was behind two presidential impeachments — is suing former president Yoon Suk Yeol for emotional damages suffered from his martial law declaration.

Love him or hate him, South Korea's new president Lee Jae-myung — a former child factory worker born into crushing poverty — has had an extraordinary life, which I wrote it about here:

RT @latimes: Trump's auto tariffs reignite concerns about GM's future in South Korea

South Korea's Constitutional Court has just removed President Yoon Suk Yeol from office for declaring martial law last December.

RT @latimespolitics: Will Korea's 'sensitive' country designation impair cooperation with the U.S.?

RT @latimes: Trump says South Korea wants to invest in the Alaska gas pipeline. Does it?

In the last few years, many U.S. born-Koreans have been astonished to learn that they are expected to serve in the South Korean military, despite having never lived there. My latest for @latimes explains why:.

The L.A. fires left behind the question of how — or if at all — we should rebuild in high-risk areas. 16 years ago, after nearly being wiped out in Australia's deadliest bushfire, the town of Marysville asked itself the same. W/ @mariapet:.

RT @StevePadilla2: Academics in Spain, France and elsewhere have tried to stop the creep of English into their languages. Now it's South Ko….

Sometime In the last few years, I started noticing that South Korea's love of loanwords was reaching absurd levels. And as I discovered last fall, there's a government agency that's furiously trying to translate them:.

With historically opposing wildfire seasons, the US and Australia send each other firefighting resources when things are slow at home. But the L.A. fires hint this system is cracking. My latest:.

Trump likes autocrats and charismatic populist reactionaries (Milei, KJU, Putin etc), not unpopular leaders who botched a martial law takeover and whose followers are awkwardly imitiating slogans like "stop the steal".

Feels like these PPP lawmakers hope that Trump will see Yoon as some sort of kindred spirit, but highly doubt that is the case — and these comments demonstrate that.

Conservative SK lawmakers invited to Trump's inauguration vowed to raise sympathy for their impeached president, but CBS reported Trump just.cracking jokes: "everyone calls me chaotic, but look at South Korea." Said he'd meet with Yoon "if they ever stop impeaching him.".

RT @latimes: Supporters of South Korea's Yoon storm courthouse. Some see hope in Trump's return

BREAKING: South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol finally detained on insurrection charges. Investigators can hold him for 48 hrs after which they will need to get a separate arrest warrant.