Wendy Teo

South Korea Correspondent

Wendy is the Straits Times’ correspondent in Seoul. She was formerly with The New Paper before joining the foreign service in 2008. After 15 years, she returned to journalism. She enjoys drawing stories from the people she talks to and hopes to visit North Korea one day.

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North Korea’s nuclear arsenal upgrade a serious threat, even if untested

Military parade celebrating the 80th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this pictured released October 11, 2025 by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency. KCNA via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REUTERS IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS IMAGE. NO THIRD PARTY SALES. SOUTH KOREA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SOUTH KOREA. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Pews to power: Churches fight to keep grip on Korean politics

Han Hak-ja, the leader of the Unification Church, arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors in Seoul, South Korea, September 22, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Denuclearisation off the table for North Korea, but freeze is achievable, say analysts

This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 30, 2025 shows North Korea's Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui (L) shaking hands with Chinese Premier Li Qiang (R) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) / South Korea OUT / ---EDITORS NOTE--- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO/KCNA VIA KNS" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS
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Will ‘fond memories’ spark a Trump-Kim reunion? Analysts don’t rule it out

FILE — President Donald Trump with Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, at Panmunjom, June 30, 2019. North Korea’s leader, in remarks reported by state media on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, said he had “good memories” of President Trump and saw no reason not to meet him again — as long as the United States stops insisting on dismantling his country’s nuclear arsenal. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)

How Seoul is strategically turning Hyundai raid fallout to its advantage

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung answers a reporter's question during an interview with Reuters at the Presidential Office in Seoul, South Korea, September 19, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

A soldier’s last battle: At 95, he yearns for North Korea but grieves leaving family behind

wtsoldier - Mr Ahn Hak-sop, 95, is a former North Korean soldier who spent more than 42 years in prison and bears hope of returning to North Korea to die and be buried there as he sees South Korea as a "colony of the United States".

ST Photo: Wendy Teo

Raid on Hyundai-LG plant in US points to Trump’s focus on immigration enforcement

epa12360089 A still frame from a video made available by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement via the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) shows an immigration raid at the Hyundai-LG vehicle assembly plant in Ellabell, Georgia, USA, 04 September 2025 (issued 07 September 2025). Immigration officials arrested 475 workers in the raid, most of them South Korean citizens. EPA/COREY BULLARD WITH US IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT (ICE) HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

What’s in it for Kim Jong Un as he takes a slow train ride to Beijing’s Victory Parade?

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaking at an event in Pyongyang on Aug 14.

‘Unresolved pain’: Last surviving comfort women in Asia seek closure, 80 years on

Bingsu-flation: Why South Koreans are willing to pay $150 for a bowl of ice kacang

wtbingsu - Rafre Fruit cafe's owner Park Seong-woo threw away 20 boxes of peaches in July as the fruit did not meet his standards. Extreme weather conditions had made the fruit less sweet than expected.

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