Hong Kong adds Korean language to university entrance exams

Non-Korean academics must often accept ‘dead-end jobs’ and isolation among native colleagues

6 December

Government ‘shifts blame’ for visa overstayers to universities, in blow to regional institutions wrestling with declining domestic population

10 April

Researcher sees ‘no hope’ for regional institutions in particular, but other academics are less pessimistic

17 December

But academic expresses concern about first-time voters treating enfranchisement as a ‘TikTok moment’

27 February

Korea’s soft power is only part of the explanation, with Seoul pumping millions into opening Korean language academies around the world, professor says