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Denuclearization of the North starts with a nuclear freeze
“This crisis is, of course, our third nuclear crisis with North Korea… we’re in the third where North Korea has an arsenal in the middle teens, a dozen to 15 weapons is an estimate in the open sources and this could go to, by 2020 to 100,” said Rober…
June 15,2017
Korean races the Namib Desert to help build a well
Park Tae-hun, 27, stood in the middle of the Namib Desert in Namibia on the morning of April in 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) heat with a banner waving overhead that read “SAHARA RACE 2017.” About 120 participants from all over the g…
June 10,2017
Cartoonist captures the faces of people he meets abroad
Known by his pen name ddonggae, or mutt, 39-year-old Kim Dong-beom, is known for gifting caricatures of the people he meets while traveling abroad. All he asks for in exchange is a picture of his patrons holding their caricatures. His sketchbook…
June 10,2017
Former prosecutor general discusses what went wrong
Chae Dong-wook, former prosecutor general under the previous Park Geun-hye administration, resigned in 2013 after reports came out that he fathered a son out of wedlock. Still, many suspected the presidential office intended to replace him becaus…
June 08,2017
Korean makes kimchi big in Ireland
Kim Geon-mu, 30, returned home to Korea after studying overseas, unable to speak the language he had studied. After his military discharge, he pushed back his graduation date from his provincial university and went on a working holiday to find his “t…
June 03,2017
Meet the man who made Moon’s shoes
“I never imagined President Moon Jae-in would still be wearing the shoes he bought from us five years ago at a sales event,” says Yu Seok-yeong, the former owner of Scene of Making Shoes, a social enterprise that went out of business four years ago. …
June 03,2017
Artist paints free funerary portraits
All photographs are intimately tied to memory, says Kim Gwang-an, 80, but funerary portraits are especially so. Graduating from the College of Commerce at Seoul National University, Kim worked as a branch manager of a Middle Eastern branch of Dae…
June 03,2017
‘We dream of a world where the Democratic Party is to the right’
“We dream of a world where the Justice Party is to the left, while the Democratic Party is to the right,” said Rep. Sim Sang-jeung, chairwoman of the minor progressive Justice Party, which won the most votes in the history of the party in the May 9 p…
May 31,2017
‘How could I live without him?’
It takes Jeong Min-so, 81, up to an hour to carefully spoon-feed her husband at the National Cancer Center cafeteria in Goyang, Gyeonggi. “I feel sorry for her,” said Baek Ji-yong, 80. “We’ve decided to leave the world together on the same day.” …
May 27,2017
How Jiri became a national park and kicked off a radical new trend
No matter where you are in Korea, a mountain is likely to be somewhere in the vicinity. There are over 45 million visits to Korea’s national parks in any given year. Jirisan National Park itself accounts for nearly 3 million visits. However, just 50 …
May 27,2017
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