Wi Sung-lac and Michelle Steel discuss ways to strengthen alliance amid security, trade and investment issues New US Ambassador to South Korea Michelle Steel (C), accompanied by her husband, lawyer Shawn Steel (L), arrives at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Seoul, South Korea, 04 August 2026. Ph»»»

Washington’s Coupang claims politicize Korea’s lawful enforcement of privacy rules Every era has its own measure of sovereignty. Once it was tariffs. Then industrial subsidies. Today it is the authority to govern data. That is why South Korea's dispute with Washington over Coupang matters far beyon»»»