Kwon Pyong, the Chinese dissident, recounted for the first time the series of gambles that got him out of China by jet ski, and almost a year later, out of South Korea. nytimes.com/2024/06/23/world…
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The election is a giant undertaking that requires millions of poll workers, voting machines and security forces to cover deserts, mountains, forests and megacities.
Why Does It Take India Six Weeks to Vote? nytimes.com/2024/04/17/world… With @johnjyoon
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The K-pop group NewJeans has asked a federal court in California to order Google to release the identity of the person behind a YouTube account that the members say is spreading defamatory statements about them. nytimes.com/2024/04/10/arts/…
Before the “Parasite” actor Lee Sun-kyun died, he had been questioned for drug use in a country that has long drawn a hard line against anything other than total abstinence. nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world…
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Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor who starred in the Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” died at 48. He had been under investigation for illegal drug use and denied the accusation. nyti.ms/3TGI93O
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How a North Korean Soccer Star Vanished and Re-emerged @NYTimes by the great duo of @mikeives @johnjyoon nytimes.com/2023/11/23/world…
A year after the Seoul crowd crush, survivors and relatives of victims continue to wrestle with unanswered questions and grief as they push for official accountability, @choesanghun reports. nytimes.com/2023/10/27/world…
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People older than 65 ride Seoul’s subway system for free. Throngs of seniors spend their days riding the trains to the end of the line, or to nowhere in particular, and have become an established part of the city’s fabric.
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ALT Lee Jin-ho, an 85-year-old retired interior designer, stands on a subway station platform and looks at the camera. He wears a straw hat, sunglasses and a crisp hanbok. A quote from him reads: “At home, I’d just be bored, lying around.” Photo by Chang W. Lee for The New York Times
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South Korea has the world’s largest diaspora of intercountry adoptees. Now some of them are returning to the country — which has the lowest birth rate globally — to hold the government accountable for what they call a corrupt and predatory adoption system. nyti.ms/44V6kgz
ALT Mia Lee Sorensen is standing, with her hands crossed and resting on a chair in front of her. A quote from Sorensen, who was adopted by Danish parents and found her South Korean birth parents who had been told she died, reads: "It’s like human trafficking. If this happened to me, how many others did they do this to?" Photo by Ksenia Ivanova for The New York Times.
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During the Korean War, the United States and Russia flooded the Korean Peninsula with arms. Now it’s the other way around, as both powers seek munitions for the war in Ukraine. nyti.ms/3sTkLVe
South Korean teachers have rallied for months against a law they say has empowered some parents to harass them by threatening to file child abuse complaints against reasonable disciplinary action. nytimes.com/2023/09/05/world…
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Where in the world are people continuing to WFH, and where are people are back in the office? A look at the latest data:
nytimes.com/2023/09/04/busin… w/ @emmabgo @johnjyoon @hikarimaehida & @meddynyt in New York, Seoul, London, Tokyo & Berlin
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Experts say Japan’s discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the ruined Fukushima nuclear power plant does not and will not pose health risks to people who eat seafood. Even though the scientific evidence bears that out, not everyone is convinced. nyti.ms/3OOFAso
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Here's my attempt at trying to make sense of all that has happened in Thailand in the past three months: nytimes.com/2023/08/24/world…
A man was imprisoned in China after calling its leader “Xitler” in 2016. He is said to have fled to South Korea on a red jet ski last week in an escape he had planned for years. nytimes.com/2023/08/24/world…
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Japan just began releasing the first 7,800 tons of treated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi plant on Thursday nytimes.com/2023/08/24/world…
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A growing number of unmarried Chinese women are buying property — a trend that goes against one of China’s most deeply rooted gender norms.
“I want to prove to everyone that women are not limited to the only option of marriage,” one single homeowner said.
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Typhoon Khanun made landfall in South Korea. After pummeling southern Japan, killing two people, the storm is expected to move slowly across the Korean Peninsula, bringing heavy rain and wind. nyti.ms/45oiajY
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"In the past decade or so, restaurateurs, writers and scholars have started to promote the concept of Taiwanese cuisine," @LiYuan6 writes. "They are articulating and shaping a culinary culture that's distinct from that of China." nyti.ms/45e7qW1
