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Psychiatrist specializes in disaster survivors
Around 2:30 p.m., Psychiatrist Lee Young-ryeol felt tremors at his hospital in Changnyeong, South Gyeongsang and knew something bad had happened. Lee is president and CEO of Bugok National Hospital. The tremors he felt were from the 5.4 magnitude ear…
Dec 16,2017
Soluna Living fosters Korean quality and craftmanship
HONG KONG - The artistic couple that heads design company Soluna Living made their way to the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show, one of the largest premier craft shows in the United States, this year along with 25 other Korean artists. The fair i…
Dec 16,2017
Young go abroad on gov’t program
“I thought Vietnam was just a country where you can ride old buses around,” said a 22-year-old student, “but now it’s preparing to develop eco-cities!” Every year, the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family gives hundreds of students the opportun…
Dec 16,2017
‘Reverence… is seeing seniors as part of the community’
Korea is aging at an unprecedented speed. Since August, people aged 65 and over account for 14 percent of the population, exceeding the size of the population aged below 14. Kim Keun-hong, chairman of the Korean Gerontological Society and a professor…
Dec 14,2017
Adoptee finds herself through French pansori
“An adopted Asian in France” was the identity that defined Shin Mi-jin all her life. Now, 37, Shin is trying to find a new identity for herself in pansori, the traditional Korean form of musical storytelling. When Shin was just four months old, h…
Dec 12,2017
Jung Woo-sung connects with Rohingya
More than 2,000 Rohingya have been slaughtered by Burmese troops and Buddhist mobs in the state of Rakhine, and over 600,000 have fled the country, mostly to neighboring Bangladesh. Yet Myanmar’s national security adviser, U Thaung Tun, told the Unit…
Dec 09,2017
Models are just like the real trains but smaller
Next to Incheon Grand Park’s zoo is a train museum, which is also a cafe. The owner of the museum and cafe is Lee Hyun-man, 61, who has been making model trains for around 40 years. After graduating middle school, Lee actually worked at a model t…
Dec 09,2017
‘Twenty years have passed ― it’s time to get to the truth’
Korea’s former deputy prime minister, Lee Hun-jai, is known to have acted as a troubleshooter during the Asian financial crisis of 1998. Lee was appointed to lead the emergency committee in the midst of the crisis in 1997 and served as the first head…
Dec 07,2017
Unmarried single mothers discuss stigmas, abortion
“We never did anything to feel shame over or be concerned about,” says Jo Ga-young, a 33-year-old unmarried single mother, when asked if she was worried that her and her child’s real names and faces have been shown to the world. “Isn’t it a judgement…
Dec 02,2017
Defectors, their children given shot at education
North Korean defectors and their children of all ages can now receive an education at the Great Vision School, an alternative school, through which some defectors have been admitted to prestigious universities, including Korea University, Sungkyunkwa…
Dec 02,2017
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