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Andrew Salmon

asalmon@washingtontimes.com

Seoul, South Korea-based Andrew Salmon, Asia Editor at The Washington Times. brings two decades of journalistic experience to the position. Before joining The Washington Times, he was Northeast Asia Editor of Hong Kong-based Asia Times. Andrew’s reporting previously appeared in The Daily Telegraph, Forbes, The International Herald Tribune, The South China Morning Post, The Times and The Washington Times. He has made television appearances on Arirang TV, CNN and France24. He can be reached at asalmon@washingtontimes.com.

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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a ceremony to commemorate South Korean soldiers killed in three major clashes with North Korea in the West Sea in past years, at the national cemetery in Daejeon, South Korea, Friday, March 24, 2023. Leaders of the U.S. Congress have invited Yoon to address a joint meeting during a visit to Washington later this month. (Im Hun-jung/Yonhap via AP, File)

South Korean president buffeted by attacks over U.S. intel leaks

Intelligence leaks from Washington have generated global headlines, but nowhere have the fallout and embarrassment been more explosive than here, with the government of President Yoon Suk Yeol forced on the defensive and even the firebrand opposition leader expressing some sympathy for Mr. Yoon's dilemma.

April 11, 2023
In this May 23, 2018, photo, former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, center, appears for his first trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea. The South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, it will grant a special pardon to Lee, who was sentenced to a 17-year prison term for a range of corruption crimes. (Chung Sung-Jun/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

Indicting ex-presidents: It’s par for the course in South Korea

While pro- and anti-Trumpers pondered the implications of a precedent shattered, the brouhaha compelled a Korean-American academic to pose this question on social media: Has the student - South Korea -- overtaken the master - the U.S. - in the practice of democracy?

April 10, 2023
Members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions stage a May Day rally in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, May 1, 2019. Thousands of trade union members and activists are marking May Day by marching through Asia's capitals and demanding better working conditions and expanding labor rights. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Clash over a 69-hour workweek reveals generational divide in South Korea

South Korea's famous/notorious work culture is currently in the spotlight, after the conservative government of President Yoon Suk Yeol on March 6 proposed expanding the allowable maximum working week from 52 hours (40 hours plus 12 hours over overtime) to 69 hours, or an average of slightly over 9.85 hours a day, seven days a week.

March 30, 2023
A TV screen shows an image of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, March 24, 2023. North Korea said Friday its cruise missile launches this week were part of nuclear attack simulations that also involved a detonation by a purported underwater drone as leader Kim Jong Un vowed to make his rivals "plunge into despair." The letters read "Developing since 2012 and it named "Haeil" on 2021." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

North Korea claims test of Russia-style unmanned underwater nuke

With the largest South Korea-U.S. spring war drills in six years in full swing, North Korea on Friday announced it had successfully tested a new weapons class, a nuclear underwater uncrewed vehicle, or UUV, designed to take down targets with a radioactive tidal wave.

March 24, 2023
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, arrives at a church in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv that became a symbol of Russian atrocities against civilians, in Ukraine, Tuesday, March 21, 2023.(Iori Sagisawa/Kyodo News via AP)

Dueling summits as Kishida makes surprise Kyiv trip in midst of Xi-Putin talks

Japanese prime ministers are not known for stealing the spotlight, but Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Tuesday managed to upstage Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his high-profile summit in Russia, making a surprise visit to Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and top Ukrainian officials.

March 21, 2023
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, left, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, shake hands following a joint news conference at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, March 16, 2023. (Kiyoshi Ota/Pool Photo via AP)

Japanese, Korean leaders move to mend frayed ties at Tokyo summit

The leaders of South Korea and Japan took steps Thursday to boost frayed diplomatic and economic relations, but their high-profile Tokyo summit was held under a pair of shadows: the latest North Korean ballistic missile test and a new lawsuit in South Korea that could scupper hopes of resetting bilateral relations.

March 16, 2023