# South China Morning Post

South China Morning Post

‘Yoon again’: calls for ousted South Korean president’s return as political rift deepens

![Former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol shakes hands with his supporters as he leaves the presidential residence on Friday, a week after the country’s top court upheld his impeachment. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop](https://upload.cafenono.com/image/slashpageHome/20250416/172719_wHckrwCJ6iJXWqYu3u?q=80&s=1280x180&t=outside&f=webp)

As South Korea election nears, Chinese residents in Seoul ‘stay quiet’ amid rising hostility

![The streets of Jayang-dong, a neighbourhood in Seoul, South Korea, dubbed “Little China”. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop](https://upload.cafenono.com/image/slashpageHome/20251015/150441_eSpatjT59YgtoOPujQ?q=80&s=1280x180&t=outside&f=webp)

South Korea’s ‘Warmth Mailbox’ delivers handwritten hope in an age of digital loneliness

![A man submits a letter to the “Warmth Mailbox” located on the campus of Konkuk University, western Seoul. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop](https://upload.cafenono.com/image/slashpageHome/20251015/150648_jITe5QJVlTKRvQNcF9?q=80&s=1280x180&t=outside&f=webp)

South Korea’s surprising new face of public safety: dog walkers

![Volunteer Lim Won-joo and her pomeranian Tori patrol their neighbourhood in eastern Seoul as part of the city’s Pet Patrol programme. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop](https://upload.cafenono.com/image/slashpageHome/20251015/150927_EJQHVBfBamTcmk7zyx?q=80&s=1280x180&t=outside&f=webp)

How Thai monks use sacred saffron rituals to save trees

![Monks wrap a large tree in a saffron robe as part of a tree ordination ceremony in Chaiyaphum province, Thailand, on July 11. The ritual symbolically ordains the tree as a monk to protect it from logging. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop](https://upload.cafenono.com/image/slashpageHome/20251015/151111_5NeLN4YfcJqa0bvwYN?q=80&s=1280x180&t=outside&f=webp)

South Korea’s atomic bomb survivors just want to be heard

![Memorial tablets bearing the names of Korean victims of the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings line an altar at a shrine in Hapcheon County. Photo: Kim Jung-yeop](https://upload.cafenono.com/image/slashpageHome/20251015/151239_cwnYtwhpqVW2tBNeAB?q=80&s=1280x180&t=outside&f=webp)

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