All posts tagged "NYT"

  • Sex workers hold a press conference in front of the Constitutional Court in Seoul on April 9, 2015 before attending the first public hearing on the constitutionality of the sex trafficking law. (Yonhap)
    [NYT] Suit Has South Korea Looking Anew at Its Hard Line on Prostitution

    – Kim Jeong-mi, a 43-year-old prostitute in Seoul, says she knows about humiliation. She usually charges customers 20,000 to 30,000 won, or about $18 to $27 — roughly a third of what her younger...

    • Posted June 22, 2015
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  • meat, drinking, cancer
    [NYT] Soju for the Soul

    – I took the news badly when my friend Jiwon said she was leaving New York and moving to Seoul. She was a beloved drinking and dining companion, a doting cat sitter and the...

    • Posted June 11, 2015
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  • "Digital Laundry" services are on the rise in South Korea in order to remove unwanted personal data from the internet (Yonhap)
    [NYT] What Silicon Valley Can Learn From Seoul

    — Like most young people in the Bay Area, Mike Kim grew up believing that the future of technology was being forged in Silicon Valley. Raised in Piedmont, an affluent suburb of Oakland,...

    • Posted June 3, 2015
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  • adultery
    [NY Times] South Koreans and Adultery

    — There’s good news in South Korea: One of the country’s favorite actresses may return to the spotlight after a six-year absence. Unlike many entertainers who take time away for rehab or spiritual regeneration,...

    • Posted April 3, 2015
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  • Rim Il, a North Korean who says he was sent to work in Kuwait before he defected to South Korea, in Seoul, the South’s capital. (Courtesy of Jean Chung/The New York Times)
    [NYT] North Korea exports 100,000 forced laborers for profit, rights groups say

    SEOUL, South Korea — When the North Korean carpenter was offered a job in Kuwait in 1996, he leapt at the chance. He was promised $120 a month, an unimaginable wage for most...

    • Posted February 20, 2015
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  • japan, Abe
    [NYT] Whitewashing History in Japan

    Right-wing political forces in Japan, encouraged by the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, are waging a campaign of intimidation to deny the disgraceful chapter in World War II when the Japanese military forced thousands...

    • Posted December 4, 2014
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  • Glendale's comfort woman statue (Yonhap)
    [NYT] Japanese reporter and the paper pay dear price for reporting on Korean ‘comfort women’

     — Takashi Uemura was 33 when he wrote the article that would make his career. Then an investigative reporter for The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s second-largest newspaper, he examined whether the Imperial Army had forced women...

    • Posted December 2, 2014
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