A fire at a hospice for the elderly in Jangseong, South Korea, killed 21 people on Wednesday. The firefighters put out the fire in 30 minutes, but many elderly, […]
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Tuesday’s Links: NKorea Building Disaster; New SKorean PM; Dan Matthews at UW
North Korea building disaster reveals regime vulnerability Japan Times It may have taken the collapse of an apartment block in an exclusive district of the North Korean capital to […]
Church Leader Resigns After Offensive Remarks About SKorean Ferry Victims
by JULIE HA One of the leaders of a conservative Protestant church association resigned Friday, just days after his controversial remarks about the South Korean ferry sinking drew public […]
Authorities Search Cult Compound Seeking Leader Linked to Ferry Disaster
by STEVE HAN Authorities in South Korea are searching the compound of a religious cult seeking the arrest of the three men in charge of the company that operated the […]
D.C. Makes Some Noise for Hip-hop Crew Dynamic Duo
Make Some Noise, D.C. Dynamic Duo gave that very command, when the South Korean hip-hop crew took the stage at a global hip-hop festival at the Kennedy Center in […]
South Korea And Japan to Hold Talks On Comfort Women
South Korea and Japan will reportedly hold talks between their high-ranking officials to discuss the Japanese army’s alleged exploitation of Korean women as sex slaves during World War II. […]
Ferry Report: Sewol Exceeded Cargo Limit On Nearly Every Voyage It Made
Photo via USA Today Adding to the list of dangerous procedures and oversights factoring into to the tragic sinking of South Korean ferry Sewol, it has been revealed that the vessel was routinely […]
More Than 200 Injured in Seoul Subway Crash
Photo courtesy of Segye Ilbo About two weeks after the tragic sinking of a ferry that left hundreds dead or still missing, South Korea suffered another serious transport accident […]
Japanese Prime Minister: We Won’t Emulate Germany In Reconciling War Crimes
Photo courtesy of Kyodo Japanese Prime Minster Shinzo Abe said his country cannot follow Germany’s footsteps in mending its relationships with neighboring countries, although he acknowledged Japan’s wartime atrocities. […]
SKorean Prime Minister Resigns Over Ferry Disaster
South Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-won bows to the nation after offering his resignation at a news conference. Photo via Associated Press The prime minister of South Korea is stepping down […]
U.S. Seeks to Return Dictator-Linked Funds to SKorea
Photo via MBC News: Chun Doo-hwan (left) and his son Chun Jae-yong (right) U.S. officials are seeking court permission to seize over $700,000 from the sale of a Southern […]
Obama Offers U.S. Flag, Magnolia Tree in Sympathetic Gestures to SKorea
President Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye take a moment of silence in honor of the Sewol victims. Photo via AP During President Obama’s visit to South Korea on […]
Distraught Families of Ferry’s Missing Confront Officials
A girl pays tribute to the victims of the sunken ferry, Sewol, at a temporary memorial at the auditorium of the Olympic Memorial Museum in Ansan, south of Seoul. […]
SKorean Ferry: Search at Difficult Stage, NKorea Sends Condolences
Image via NoCut News: A table set by the families of the South Korean ferry victims Hopes of finding survivors from the capsized South Korean ferry are dwindling as […]
April 2014 Cover Story: E.J. Ok Is One of the Greatest Point Guards You Never Heard of
One of the Greats Long before Linsanity, crowds in Louisiana were chanting “EJ! EJ!” for a 5-foot-6 basketball talent from South Korea. E.J. Ok would become one of the […]
