by KARIN CHAN and JAMES S. KIM After his father died due to starvation and his mother and sister left for China, Joseph Kim was left homeless as a child. […]
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North Korea Launches Online Shopping Site
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com It’s no Amazon or Gmarket, but North Korea has finally launched an online shopping website—despite the fact that the vast majority of the […]
Dictionary App Helps North Korean Defectors Speak ‘Southern’
Pictured above: An instructor demonstrates how to use a dictionary app to a group of teen North Korean defectors. (Photo via Cheil Worldwide) by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com […]
‘So The Arrow Flies’: A Political Thriller That Explores Asian American Identity
by SARAH MIN Hours before the first plane hit the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, Esther K. Chae boarded a Los Angeles-bound flight from New York. She was up in the air […]
Prominent North Korean Defector Retracts Key Parts of His Story
by STEVE HAN | @steve_han editor@charactermedia.com A prominent North Korean defector, who has become something of a star with his remarkably gruesome story of surviving captivity in a prison […]
Get to Know Charles Rahi Chun of ‘The Interview’
by AMANDA WALUJONO Looking back at 2014, there was no movie quite like The Interview. A comedy about a fictional assassination attempt of North Korean’s current sitting leader Kim Jong […]
Kim Jong-un’s Sister May Visit South Korea
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com North Korea has offered to send Kim Jong-un’s younger sister as an envoy to a Seoul food festival in March, an organizer told […]
