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Sax man on bus promotes reunification

Last month, Kim Seung-sik, 58, left a cushy job teaching Korean at a private school in Naju, South Jeolla, four years before retirement. He collected some savings - about 40 million won ($37,600) - and bought a red camper van. His lofty goal: to t…

Mar 31,2018
A professor finds the artistry in North Korean propaganda

Muhn Bum-gang remembers the moment he first laid eyes on a North Korean painting. It was in 2010, the same year North Korea torpedoed and sank a South Korean naval ship, killing 46 soldiers. But as Muhn gazed upon the watercolor strokes, the polit…

Mar 31,2018
Web comic gets youth to rusticate

A web comic portraying the life of a city girl who moves to a rural village in Mungyeong, North Gyeongsang, has become so popular in Korea that readers are making inquiries to the local government about how they can live there as a farmer. For Lee…

Mar 31,2018
After retirement, speed skater turns to fashion

Korean speed skater Park Seung-hi is now a fashion designer after she retired from the sport post-Olympics. “My dream was to be a fashion designer when I was in elementary school,” she said. “Somehow, I became an athlete, but I kept my interest i…

Mar 24,2018
Burmese worker’s donated organs save four Korean lives

Organ donations from a 44-year-old migrant worker from Myanmar who died in a factory accident saved the lives of four Koreans and earned the gratitude of the nation. His family in Myanmar continued his generosity, donating the 5.4 million won…

Mar 17,2018
Adoptee deepens ties to Korea at the Olympic Games

Hanna Poeschl, 22, is a Korean adoptee. She was born Hwang Young-hye in Daegu and adopted by the Poeschl family at the age of 13 months. She grew up in Minnesota with a younger sister adopted from China. Unlike some other adopted kids, she wa…

Mar 17,2018
‘Xi may try to rule past 2035 to achieve his Chinese Dream’

As Chinese President Xi Jinping moves to rule for life, international relations expert Suh Jin-young, a professor emeritus of Korea University, weighed in on the repercussions this may hold for the Korean Peninsula. Suh sat for an interview with t…

Mar 15,2018
‘Pandora’s box is now open,’ says professor about Me Too

It was in April last year when poet Choi Young-mi, 57, said that she would “speak up more” in an interview with a local newspaper. Nearly a year later, a poem of hers published three months ago in the quarterly literary magazine “Hwang Hae Munwha” ca…

Mar 08,2018
Dancer joins with global pop group

Jeong He-yoon is a 22-year-old choreographer and a member of a 14-member pop group known as Now United, set to debut in April, which was formed by the English producer, creator of “American Idol” and manager of the Spice Girls and Amy Winehouse, Simo…

Mar 03,2018
Graduate gets design job, unhindered by atrophy

Kwak Hee-jin, 24, seated on an electric wheelchair, said she gets breathless in less than a minute when she speaks. But she was all smiles during her interview at Gangnam Severance Hospital on Feb. 27. Kwak suffers spinal muscular atrophy, a rare…

Mar 03,2018

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