Politics
PRI's The World
May 11, 2017
The nuclear threat from North Korea is a big deal. But in South Korea, some Catholic leaders see a different nuclear problem, right in their own backyard. Catholic clergy are taking the lead in protests against South Korea's dependence on nuclear energy.
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Politics
A California statue stirs passions in South Korea and ire in Japan
PRI's The World
January 29, 2014
The Korean American community is standing by a new statue honoring thousands of "comfort women," or sex slaves, used by Japanese soldiers during World War II. Japanese conservatives say the statue has to go. And both sides are taking the issue to the White House.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Why every Korean kid knows not to keep the fan on over night
PRI's The World
November 04, 2014
There's a superstition that Korean parents tell their kids: If you go to sleep with an electric fan running in your room, you might die.
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Conflict & Justice
They came to America as adoptees but were never made US citizens
PRI's The World
December 31, 2015
How a quirk in US law led to thousands of international adoptees becoming stateless.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Your next big, addictive TV series could be from South Korea
PRI's The World
February 20, 2014
Primetime dramas in South Korea — known as K-Dramas — are filled with implausible story lines, complete with romantic twists and turns. They’ve been popular in Asia for years, but thanks to online streaming websites, they’re now gaining a cult-like following in the US.
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Arts, Culture & Media
In the US, I'm too skinny to be a plus size model. In Korea, I'm a fat woman.
PRI's The World
December 30, 2015
Kim Gee-yang got tired of waiting for Korean magazines to hire her as a plus size model. So she started her own magazine, where she sometimes publishes fat-shaming comments to take away their power.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Why these older Korean men are obsessed with a K-pop girl band
PRI's The World
May 20, 2014
It may seem a little weird to see middle-aged men in Korea dress up like their favorite K-pop girl group. But there's a reason.
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Arts, Culture & Media
A Korean adoptee meets his birth mother and winds up moving in with her
PRI's The World
March 01, 2017
International adoption rules don't make it easy for adoptees and their biological families to search for one another. But many Korean adoptees are going abroad to find their birth families and build new ties.
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Arts, Culture & Media
K-pop’s gross double standard for women
GlobalPost
April 25, 2016
The Korean pop music empire is now perhaps the country's biggest export, yet the product it peddles is all too often incredibly sexist.
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Arts, Culture & Media
What's behind the restaurants North Korea runs around the world? Kitsch — and perhaps recordings.
GlobalPost
May 06, 2016
Even Americans are welcome in these North Korean outposts. But Pyongyang may be recording it all.
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Arts, Culture & Media
Korean is virtually two languages, and that's a big problem for North Korean defectors
The World in Words
May 19, 2015
North Koreans may speak Korean, but not the kind they have to learn if they defect to the South. And even with a new smartphone app to guide them through South Korea's unfamiliar dialect, it's a tough and unnerving challenge.