As we head into the new year, it’s time to talk about hopes and opportunities. But the mood is a little different because in the past year, we went through one of the most challenging years in a long time and its repercussions -- especially those related to former President Park Geun-hye and North Korea -- are likely to continue into the year ahead. North Korea crisis One of the toughest challenges will be tackling the North Korea nuclear and missile crisis, which has even stoked fears of war be

Yang Yang, a 22-year-old Chinese corn farmer, spends two to three hours per day streaming video of life in his cliffside village to smartphones across China. He spends lots of time clinging to a cliffside ladder, one hand on his selfie stick, while he banters with fans about village life.It’s hardly riveting television, but in China it has an audience: In just two months, Yang has managed to earn more than 1 million views and 45,000 regular followers on Kuaishou, an online video app favored by t

The issue of South Korea’s former “comfort women” forced into sexual slavery for Japan’s wartime army during its colonial domination of Korea has come to the spotlight with the release of a panel report on negotiations leading up to a deal with Japan on the matter.　President Moon Jae-in said Thursday that the issue cannot be settled with the deal, which the panel identified as containing problems, though the accord is an official promise between the two governments. He also said addressing the i