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For Chae Ryan, 33, the search for his Korean identity has been a harrowing journey. The South Korean agency that facilitated his adoption to Australia in 1991 is now at the centre of damning inquiry into widespread fraud and malpractice in the country’s adoption system.

‘I believed I was an orphan’: Australians caught up in global adoption scandal

For Chae Ryan, the search for his identity has been a harrowing experience. He’s not the only one.

  • Lisa Visentin

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Firefighters extinguish a fire at a factory building that has been engulfed in a wildfire in Uiseong, South Korea on Saturday.

Dozens dead and injured as bushfires ravage South Korea

Tens of thousands of people have been told to evacuate and a helicopter pilot has been killed trying to extinguish some of the worst fires the nation has ever experienced.

  • Kim Tong-Hyung
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This Sydney council was about to spend $70,000 on a trip to Korea. Until it changed its mind

The mayor, councillors and other staff are set to attend a three-day festival, but at a lower cost than first flagged.

  • Anthony Segaert
Robert Pattinson in Mickey 17.

He may have won four Oscars, but this cult Korean director still delights in mocking Americans

Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson, is in the vein of his previous English-language sci-fi films.

  • Jake Wilson
Rescue crews work at the site of the plane crash at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea.

Bird feathers found in engines of South Korean plane that crashed

The first report on last month’s Jeju Air crash in South Korea confirmed traces of bird strikes in the plane’s engines, though officials haven’t determined the cause of the accident that killed 179 people.

Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol attends a hearing in his impeachment trial at the Constitutional Court on January 21 in Seoul.

South Korean prosecutors indict president on martial law charges

Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol will face trial on insurrection charges relating to his short-lived insurrection attempt.

  • Lisa Visentin
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The two surviving flight attendants were rescued from the plane’s tail.

Crashed South Korean jet’s black boxes missing final minutes

Both the flight data and cockpit voice recorders suspended recording for the final four minutes before the plane made an emergency landing, depriving investigators of crucial evidence.

  • Heejin Kim
As investigators look into what caused Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 to crash, the airline has come under intense government and public scrutiny for how it operates.

Jeju Air was shaky even before horror crash

As investigators look into what caused Jeju Air Flight 7C2216 to crash, the airline has come under intense government and public scrutiny for how it operates.

  • Daisuke Wakabayashi
Three-year-old Ko Yoonwoo, the youngest victim of the Jeju Air crash, with his parents Jin Lee Seon and Kang Ko, who were also killed.

Pictured: Youngest victim of South Korean plane crash on first trip abroad

South Korean authorities have begun releasing the bodies of the crash victims to their families.

  • Beatrice Siviero
Firefighters and rescue teams work at the wreckage of a passenger plane at Muan International Airport in Muan-gun, South Korea.

‘More questions than answers’: Uncertainty surrounds the deadly South Korean plane crash

The single-aisle aircraft was seen skidding down the runway with no landing gear deployed, before hitting a wall in an explosion of flame and debris.

  • Bart Meijer and Lisa Barrington

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