I moved to South Korea to save money for a year. When I returned to the US, I hated it and ran back to Asia.

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Author Krissi Driver in Gamcheon Culture Village
The author in South Korea.

Krissi Driver

I spent two months working on a farm in South Korea for free lodging and food. It was hard work, but I saved at least $2,000.

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Tim Winkler sought volunteer experiences on his travels to save costs and immerse himself in local culture.

Tim Winkler

North Korea is looking for medicine overseas to treat Kim Jong Un's obesity, spy agency says

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The state of Kim Jong Un's health has been speculated on for years.

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Asia's governments think people not having sex or dating may be tanking their birth rates. That's not the full picture.

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Hospital staff attending to new born babies in the nursery ward of the Hospital in Misato city, Saitama prefecture on February 1, 2014.
Cities like Tokyo and Seoul have turned to radical ideas like launching a dating app and giving people money to reverse their vasectomies in order to bolster their declining birth rates.

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9 countries where people can retire in comfort by 62

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Retirement ages vary worldwide. In countries like Greece, Luxembourg, and South Korea, the normal retirement age is 62.

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A North Korean defector was made a minister in South Korea, likely irking Kim Jong Un, experts say

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Tae Yongho, a former minister of the North Korean Embassy in London who fled to South Korea in 2016, speaks to the media in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 19, 2019.
Tae Yongho, a former minister of the North Korean Embassy in London who defected to South Korea in 2016.

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Putin and Kim Jong Un are getting alarmingly close, and it's put US ally South Korea in a predicament

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North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, standing left, walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, standing right.

North and South Korea are locked in a dangerous arms race. Putin may be about to make this worse.

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A Yonhapnews TV broadcast at a railway station in Seoul showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile launch after new missile tests in July, 2024.

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Putin getting tight with Kim Jong Un could be as big of a problem for China as it is for the US

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Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un smiling and holding up glasses of red wine.
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toast during a reception at the Mongnangwan Reception House in Pyongyang on June 19, 2024.

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South Korea's military fires on border islands for the first time in 7 years as a North Korean missile fails and the balloon war rages on

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South Korean Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) fire rockets during a joint live firing drill between South Korea and the US at the Seungjin Fire Training Field in Pocheon, 65 kms northeast of Seoul, on April 26, 2017
A 2017 drill showing South Korean MLRS in action. Similar weapons were used in the drills conducted Wednesday, per South Korean media.

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