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• Beef and crystal meth: gifts for North Korean officials at harvest festival

  10 Sep 2014: Chuseok is an important thanksgiving holiday on the Korean Peninsula, but it is also a time when officials in the North expect lavish and illicit presents, writes DailyNK

• Gwangju Biennale: an aggressive exhibition that electrifies South Korea

  9 Sep 2014:

  Jason Farago: It may still draw blank stares in the west, but the Gwangju Biennale blazes a trail with provocative art – and attendance figures that put even Venice in the shade

• I am a North Korean defector-turned-rapper: any questions for me?

  8 Sep 2014: Through hip-hop, Kang Chun-hyok raises awareness about conditions he escaped as a child. He has agreed to answer your questions about human rights, life as a defector and his music

• North Korea to return South Korean man who had entered illegally

  5 Sep 2014: Kim Sang-geun came to North Korea after having unspecified difficulties living in the South

• South Korean dog show - in pictures

  5 Sep 2014: Ed Jones of Reuters has spent time at a dog show in Seoul, South Korea.

• US seizes $500,000 traced to disgraced former South Korean president

  4 Sep 2014: Chun Doo-hwan was convicted in Korea in 1997 for accepting more than $200m in bribes while in office

• North Korea's suicide rate among worst in world, says WHO report

  4 Sep 2014:

  World Health Organisation study entitled Preventing Suicide: A Global Imperative says 9,790 suicides took place there in 2012

• Japan vows to cut suicide rate by 20% over 10 years

  4 Sep 2014: Despite modest fall in rate in recent years, Japan has struggled to address cultural resistance to discussing mental health issues

• South Korea to create army unit with US in event of conflict with North

  4 Sep 2014: Mechanised unit led by US major general will be set up in first half of next year to prepare for any future war with North Korea

• North Korea aims for political gold at Asian Games

  2 Sep 2014: Dozens of athletes are preparing to travel to South Korea to compete in the Asian Games as part of Pyongyang’s latest sports diplomacy push

• Dethroned Burmese beauty queen demands apology in return for pageant crown

  2 Sep 2014: Miss Asia Pacific World winner May Myat Noe says she has done nothing wrong to cause her to be stripped of title

• Funeral begins for South Korean tycoon whose family ran ferry disaster firm

  30 Aug 2014: Yoo Byung-Eun to be buried on Sunday amid tight security at the compound of the religious group he headed

• Kim Jong-un's banker defects in Russia, say reports

  29 Aug 2014: Yun Tae-hyong, a senior official at Korea Daesong Bank, vanished last week in Nakhodka with $5m, claims newspaper

• Burmese beauty queen 'vanishes with tiara' from pageant

  29 Aug 2014:

  May Myat Noe alleged to have run off with crown after contest organisers said she should have breast enhancement operation

• South Korean man acquitted after retweeting posts by North Korea

  28 Aug 2014: Park Jeong-Geun was arrested and charged in 2012 for retweeting posts by the North's official Twitter account

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