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    Christian Davies

    Seoul correspondent

    Christian Davies is the FT's Seoul bureau chief, covering South Korea and North Korea. He was previously based in Warsaw.
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    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      News in-depthNorth Korea
      The last Covid reopening? North Korea eases its pandemic self-isolation

      Kim Jong Un seeks to strengthen ties with Beijing and Russia while maintaining coronavirus-era controls

      Kim Jong Un at a launch ceremony of what he says is a new nuclear attack submarine on September 6
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      Global InsightGeopolitics
      Japan and South Korea’s rapprochement is shakier than it looks

      Tokyo may need to show genuine compassion over forced-labour issue to establish partnership with Seoul that lasts

      Yoon Suk Yeol, left, Joe Biden, centre, Fumio Kishida
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      News in-depthNorth Korea
      North Korea leans on Russia to bolster weapons trade

      US warns Pyongyang will ‘pay a price’ for arming Moscow in Ukraine conflict

      North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, right
    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      North Korea’s Kim plans to visit Putin in Russia to discuss arms sales, says US

      Moscow is seeking more weapons supplies from Pyongyang to use in Ukraine war

      Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      North Korea
      Russia proposes joint naval drills with North Korea and China

      Exercises would be a first for Pyongyang as it tightens ties with Moscow

      An image taken from TV footage of Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese politburo member Li Hongzhong
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      FT SeriesThe battery revolution
      Why the EV battery race needs a recycling revolution

      Uncertainty over which cells will power tomorrow’s cars among factors complicating efforts to reuse raw materials

    • Thursday, 31 August, 2023
      #techAsia
      BYD makes its move and China suppliers go easy on hiring Premium content

      The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

      BYD’s ATTO 3 electric car
    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      FT SeriesThe battery revolution
      Can anyone challenge China’s EV battery dominance?

      Technology breakthroughs and trade barriers will be needed to take on CATL and BYD

    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      South Korean business & finance
      Chinese robot waiters fuel Korean anxiety over labour shortages

      Imported machines designed to serve diners in restaurants outnumber homemade rivals

      A artificial intelligence serving robot delivers meal during a demonstration at a restaurant on September 15 2020
    • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
      News in-depthNorth Korea
      Power-starved North Korea turns to solar energy to keep the lights on

      Cheaper panels and increasing domestic assembly offer an alternative to regime’s dilapidated electricity grid

      Two balconies on the light pink building have mini-solar panels on them. Red flowering plants in pots stand on some of the balconies
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      FT SeriesThe battery revolution
      The search for winners in the new battery era

      Carmakers, miners and battery groups are jostling to position themselves in the new Darwinian world

    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Inside BusinessSouth Korean business & finance
      Prosecutor-turned-president looms over South Korean business

      Yoon Suk Yeol pardons company leaders but state makes an intervention elsewhere

      Yoon Suk Yeol
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Batteries
      China’s cathode billionaire targets US battery market via South Korea IPO

      Ronbay Technology looks to split to avoid Washington’s tariffs and access subsidies

    • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
      North Korea
      North Korea claims US soldier was escaping ‘racism’ in military

      Pyongyang makes first public comments on case of Travis King after army private crossed border last month

      A TV screen shows a file image of American soldier Travis King during a news program at the Seoul railway station on Wednesday
    • Monday, 14 August, 2023
      FT SeriesThe battery revolution
      Rival battery technologies race to dominate electric car market

      Two forms of lithium-ion technology are vying to dominate an industry destined to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars

    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      InterviewPOSCO
      Korea battery materials maker onshores China supply chain to win US subsidies

      Posco’s battery materials chief says company is targeting the growing EV market

    • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
      Travel & leisure industry
      Japanese and South Korean shares surge on return of Chinese tour groups

      Markets cheer Beijing’s move to scrap pandemic-era restrictions on overseas travel to 78 countries

      A tourist takes a photograph in the Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in 2019
    • Monday, 7 August, 2023
      South Korea
      Scouts gathering in South Korea evacuated ahead of typhoon

      World Scout Jamboree derailed by extreme weather and poor sanitation in embarrassment for Seoul

      British scouts leave the World Scout Jamboree campsite in Buan, South Korea on Sunday
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      Semiconductors
      South Korean politician urges US to abandon China chip strategy

      Former Samsung executive Yang Hyang-ja warns of risk of damaging relations with Asian allies

      Yang Hyang-ja
    • Friday, 4 August, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Russia requested munitions from North Korea, says US

      Defence minister Sergei Shoigu travelled to Pyongyang to secure further weapons

      North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, right, and Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu attend a military parade in Pyongyang on July 27
    • Thursday, 3 August, 2023
      #techAsia
      Apple in India and Nintendo’s IP push Premium content

      The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times

      People are pictured inside the new Apple retail store during a media preview on the eve of its opening in Mumbai
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      US foreign policy
      US seeks to deepen Tokyo-Seoul security links to boost Pacific deterrence

      White House pushes trilateral defence co-operation amid rising threat from China and North Korea

      US, Japanese and South Korean naval vsesels participate in a trilateral anti-submarine exercise in the international waters off the Korean Peninsula last year
    • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      Tech cold war: South Korea pivots from China to US

      Washington is courting chipmakers and battery manufacturers with large subsidies but demanding they loosen ties with their other major market

      President Yoon Suk Yeol, with a Hyundai electric car, a Samsung DRAM chip and symbols from the flags of the US, China and South Korea
    • Saturday, 29 July, 2023
      Semiconductors
      SK Hynix and Samsung’s early bet on AI memory chips pays off

      Korean semiconductor groups benefit from strong demand in niche technology vital for building generative AI systems

      SK Hynix Dram memory chips
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      North Korea
      Russian defence minister vows to strengthen military ties with North Korea

      Sergei Shoigu’s visit to Pyongyang marks 70th anniversary of Korean war armistice

      Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, left, meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Pyongyang on Wednesday
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