SEOUL, South Korea — Every few months, North Korea tests short-range rockets, hurling them into the sea with hardly a glance from the rest of the world. The frequency of those launches, however, has increased dramatically in the past month. On Saturday alone, Kim Jong Un’s military fired off 30, as if they were bottle rockets.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 26, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — The headlines are regular and morbid: a shamed celebrity or politician takes her own life, a student leaps off a bridge after being rejected from a first-class university, and an ailing grandfather commits suicide to relieve the financial burden on the family.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 13, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea opened its much-hyped Masik Pass ski area this winter.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 12, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — On Sunday, the North Korean Generalissimo Kim Jong Un did what any leader who is an unwavering advocate of democracy and the rule of law should do: He held elections.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 10, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — War is all about vicious cycles. Consider drone strikes. They target alleged bad guys, but they also inspire others to take up arms, and help extremists recruit. The remedy exacerbates the problem.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 9, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — Last week, the US and South Korean militaries launched their annual war-game ritual, the Key Resolve and Foal Eagle military exercises, which will last until April 18.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Mar 4, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — Call it the gasp heard round the world. Olympic fans were aghast when Russia’s Adelina Sotnikova took the figure skating gold medal over South Korean uber-star Kim Yuna. You could almost imagine the collective shock measuring on the Richter scale.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Feb 24, 2014

SEOUL, South Korea — For the first time, the United Nations has formally accused North Korea of crimes against humanity.

By Geoffrey Cain
PRI’s The World

Feb 18, 2014

SEOUL — Long before the rise of smartphones, Samsung was known for supplying parts to companies such as Apple and Sony. Today Samsung plays an indispensable role in the global supply chain for phones, refrigerators and TVs thanks to its talent for producing components invisible to most consumers.

By Geoffrey Cain
Nikkei Asia Review

Feb 13, 2014

SEOUL — The Samsung Group is most widely known these days for its smartphones, which have been outselling those of any other company. But the South Korean technology giant has also been quietly winning business building the telecommunications networks used for its phones as well as those of its competitors.

By Geoffrey Cain
Nikkei Asia Review

Feb 13, 2014