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Park Gyeong-je, 65, a migratory beekeeper, stands among beehives at an acquaintance's family gravesite where he received permission from the family to keep hives as a second location for migratory beekeeping in Okcheon, South Korea, on May 13.

ENVIRONMENT / Climate change

Jun 4, 2026

A South Korean beekeeper counts the cost of climate change

Rising temperatures are disrupting South Korea's beekeeping industry, as earlier blooms, harsher weather and disease cut honey production and put pressure on migratory farmers.

Under the light of a moon partially obscured by clouds, the eyes of a dozen deer glow uncannily in the dark on South Korea's island of Anma.

ASIA PACIFIC

Jul 2, 2024

Swelling deer herd overwhelms South Korean islanders

The government is weighing a petition to designate the deer as "harmful wildlife" to clear the way for hunting and other measures.

Members of the Deokjeok High School baseball team during a tournament in Seoul in August

BASEBALL

Dec 13, 2023

South Korean island is a field of dreams for young baseball hopefuls

A sports academy in remote Deokjeok has breathed life into the island, which was struggling to retain, and attract, youngsters in the aging nation.

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC

Apr 20, 2021

For South Korea’s youngest ’sea women,’ warming seas mean smaller catches

Every year the waters are a little less icy — warming as much as 2.6 times more than the world average — changing the undersea habitat and casting doubt on the future of the 'sea women.'

Japan Times

ASIA PACIFIC

Mar 16, 2021

Last three schoolchildren on Nokdo beach trace South Korea’s arc to demographic crisis

South Korea has become the world's fastest-graying society with the lowest birth rate anywhere in 2020, according to the World Bank.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Community programs and tracking systems are expanding across Japan as local governments search for ways to prevent dementia-related disappearances.

He told his wife he was ‘coming home.’ Then he disappeared.

By Alex K.T. Martin

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