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Byline: B.J. Lee Samsung's female employees are breaking through old barriers. For a country with a centuries-old tradition of patriarchal Confucianism, South Korea has come a long way in terms [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee Even as the global economy begins to recover, the G20 has discovered a surprising, expanded role. When the finance ministers and central-bank chiefs of the group [...]

Byline: Michael Freedman and B. J. Lee It's a common strategy of smart multinationals: invest heavily in new markets and products while competitors retrench in a recession. But South Korea [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee Lee Myung-bak wants to move his country to the center of the world. For the first time in modern history, South Korea is laying claim to [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee Lee Myung-bak wants to move his country to the center of the world. For the first time in modern history, South Korea is laying claim to [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee Jeju, South Korea's southern- most island, has long been a favorite winter destination for Asian tourists seeking warm weather and beautiful beaches. It is also renowned [...]

Byline: Christian Caryl and B.J. Lee North Korea's dictator may be ailing, but don't hope for change soon. In 1994, the future looked dark for North Korea. The collapse of [...]

Byline: Christian Caryl and B. J. Lee Amid the frenzy of speculation on the whereabouts of Kim Jong Il--is he dead, sick, paralyzed?--it's worth remembering that the North Korean leader [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee The spasm of national fear that threatened to cripple South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is gone. Lee's decision to allow U.S. beef imports had set off [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee and Adam B. Kushner Move over, Andover and Exeter. Two South Korean high schools score high on Ivy League acceptances. Even as Visa restrictions have tightened [...]

Byline: Christian Caryl, B. J. Lee and Stephen Glain A new nuclear-disarmament deal could change life for North Koreans--if it lives up to all it promises. The spectacle of the [...]

Byline: Christian Caryl and B. J. Lee A rare feature film about North Korea depicts the struggles of refugees with poignancy, heft and heart. There are clear reasons so few [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee A presidential time limit meant to ward off strongmen condemns Korean politics to chaos. Lee Myung-Bak has had a very public flameout. Since taking office five [...]

Byline: B. J. LEE South korean president Lee Myung-bak took power in February as one of the most enthusiastically global leaders the world has ever seen. The well-traveled former Hyundai [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee America and South Korea have much to gain from their big trade deal, but may kill it for silly reasons. A year ago, Seoul and Washington [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee Lee's departure has forecasters predicting big changes for family business empires. Again. The resignation of Lee Kun-hee, the king of Korean tycoons, has been heralded as [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee Lee Myung-bak aims to dig his nation to prosperity. But will his $16 billion canal turn into a black hole? It's a development project aimed to [...]

Byline: Christian Caryl and B. J. Lee Lee's plans for Korea, in the president's own words. Lee Myung-Bak was elected president of South Korea in December on promises to enhance [...]

Byline: B.J. Lee Asia has long yearned to create its own Ivy League for the great mass of students who can't afford to make it to Harvard. Now it has [...]

Byline: Malcolm Beith, B. J. Lee, Karla Bruning, Jonathan Mummolo, Nick Summers MEXICO: The Guns of Felipe Calderon Can President Felipe Calderon pull an Alvaro Uribe? Since taking office on [...]

Byline: Rana Foroohar, Akiko Kashiwagi, William Underhill, Tracy McNicoll, Quindlen Krovatin, Owen Matthews, Jason Overdorf, B. J. Lee, Mac Margolis Beyond the Strip Long the fastest-growing metropolis in America, Sin [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee The world's stem-cell hub at Seoul National University Hospital seemed like the epicenter of global biotechnology when it was dedicated last October. The new lab was [...]

Byline: Alan Isenberg and Christopher Dickey, Stefan Theil and William Underhill, Joe Cochrane, Mary Carmichael, B. J. Lee and Ben Whitford, Sarah Schafer and Jonathan Ansfield, Nick Summers, Elise Soukup, [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee Intensely nationalistic South Korea has long been ambivalent about foreign investment. In the late 1990s, the country was forced to open its doors to private-equity funds [...]

Byline: B.J. Lee The iPod Nano is already behind the cutting edge--and that's good news. What makes this slender device so cool, of course, is Apple's use of so-called flash [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee It's no surprise that Korean phone companies are among the first to move into the music and film businesses. The country, as its boosters never tire [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee As soon as the buses crossed the heavily fortified border of the Demilitarized Zone and entered North Korea, a vast open pit appeared before the wide-eyed [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee Fifty-five years ago this month, U.S. Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur led 70,000 United Nations troops ashore at Inchon on the Korean Peninsula. They attacked North Korean troops, [...]

Byline: B.J. Lee It was a rare encounter between magnificent antiquity, modern art and corporate promotion. Korean firm LG Electronics had graphic artists apply state-of-the-art video effects to some of [...]

Byline: George Wehrfritz (With B.J. Lee in Seoul, Hideko Takayama in Tokyo, Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop in Singapore, Joe Cochrane in Bangkok and Jonathan Adams in Taipei) In the pie-chart world of [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee Kim Ssang Soo, 59, is a mobile man. As CEO of LG Electronics, he spends 70 percent of his time on the road, which is where [...]

Byline: B. J. Lee Cho Gyung Hee says she sold her soul for a toothbrush. One summer day in 2000 the 30-year-old mother of two sons was accosted on a [...]

The Daewoo sedan skirted police patrols in the dead of night. At the wheel, human-rights lawyer Roh Moo Hyun navigated past various protest sites scattered across Pusan, South Korea's main […]

POLITICS The Anxiety Election The atmosphere in Washington--home of the damaged (and repaired) Pentagon, the anthrax attacks and now the sniper killer--is emblematic of the country. A theme is coalescing [...]

In the beginning there was only Nasdaq, the American mother of all high-flying tech markets. As the New York exchange took off, others would try to follow. Starting in 1996 [...]