Jason Strother

Reporter Jason Strother is a freelance multimedia journalist who has reported from both sides of the Korean peninsula since moving to Seoul in 2006.

He makes frequent work trips around Asia and has also filed from Brazil.

He got his start in the business as a producer at a 24-hour cable news channel in the Bronx, but always wanted the life of a foreign correspondent.

He is also an adjunct professor of journalism at Montclair State University in his home state of New Jersey.

Recent Stories

Global Politics

A North Korean refugee and cartoonist draws what life is like for those who escape

PRI's The World

July 06, 2017

Choi Seong-guk has had a knack for drawing since he was a kid when teachers praised him for his sketches of evil American soldiers that he says he made look “as ugly and violent as possible.”

Jobs

Samsung dream jobs are running out for young, overeducated South Koreans

PRI's The World

May 31, 2017

Why are South Korea's new graduates having so much trouble finding work? Some say it's because they only want to work for big conglomerates.

Sports

The pace of baseball makes it perfect for its blind fans in Korea

PRI's The World

April 03, 2017

Three baseball fans in South Korea host a popular sports podcast. But most listeners don't know its three hosts are blind.

Business

South Korea's obsession with fried chicken, explained

PRI's The World

March 01, 2017

It's so popular that tens of thousands of fried chicken restaurants have sprung up around the country in the last 20 years. And the competition is fierce.

Arts

A South Korean cartoonist mocks his country's oppressive office culture

PRI's The World

December 07, 2016

South Korean office culture is overbearing. Many bosses act like generals. Artist Yang Kyung-soo lets workers say what's really on their mind in his cartoon "Yakchjkii."

Conflict

South Koreans raise voices against a new US anti-missile system aimed at North Korea

PRI's The World

November 10, 2016

Despite assurances from the US and South Korean governments, South Koreans living near the site of a new anti-missile shield worry about potential health impacts.

Justice

Your answer to mass shootings is to get bigger guns. To me that's really strange.

PRI's The World

July 22, 2016

Five years after the Norway shootings, a survivor reflects on Anders Breivik, the Orlando attack, and guns.

Arts

A Syrian family in New Jersey create art and music that they couldn't back home

PRI's The World

June 21, 2016

President Obama is falling short on his pledge to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of September. But some Syrians have already been granted visas and are living here, not as refugees, but as visiting professors.

Conflict

What the new life of a Syrian on Jeju Island looks like

PRI's The World

January 21, 2016

The war in Syria forced 22-year-old Ahmed Lababidi to leave his country. He now calls Jeju Island — a honeymoon destination for South Koreans — home. Though, for how much longer is anyone’s guess.

Conflict

A Syrian man takes refuge in a Korean honeymoon resort island

PRI's The World

January 21, 2016

Here's the story of the only Syrian on Korea's Jeju Island. He's asked for asylum there, but Korean authorities say the war back home isn't enough of a reason to get it.

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