EditorialWorks by key 20th century Korean artists are displayed on a wall in the studio of RM, the leader of the South Korean pop group BTS, in Seoul, South Korea on Aug. 18, 2022. (Dasom Han/The New York Times)
EditorialPark Sang-hak, a fiery North Korean, at this office in downtown Seoul, South Korea, May 28, 2021. He is the first person to be indicted on charges of breaking a new law banning the spread of propaganda leaflets along the inter-Korean border. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialIn a park in Imjingak, South Korea, upwind of the North Korean border, activists led by Park Sang-hak, left, release balloons carrying leaflets criticizing the North’s government on April 15, 2011. (Woohae Cho/The New York Times)
EditorialAt his home in Seoul on May 22, 2020, Ahn Yong-soo shows newspaper clippings about his brother, Ahn Hak-soo, that had been kept by their father. (Woohae Cho/The New York Times)