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Journalist/Author of Flowers of Fire: The Inside Story of South Korea's Feminist Movement. Ex @AFP Seoul. Words on @foreignpolicy, @ajenglish, @nytimes, etc.

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@allyjung
Hawon Jung
5 months
"We’ll watch how..politicians will respond to our voices with our eyes wide open, our fists clenched, and our light sticks & flags ready." My latest on the role of women in public defiance against Yoon & the challenges they face in S.Korean politics today. https://t.co/BbcuE8GNJR
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foreignpolicy.com
Korean women have helped topple governments but still have trouble gaining political office.
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@AFP
AFP News Agency
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🇰🇵 North Korea showed off its "most powerful" intercontinental ballistic missile at a military parade attended by top officials from Russia and China, Pyongyang's state media reported Saturday. ➡️ https://t.co/5zL2gu0OeK
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@AFP
AFP News Agency
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🇵🇸 🇮🇱 VIDEO: Gazans return to levelled homes as Israeli army pulls back "We're going back to our areas, full of wounds and sorrow," says a Gazan walking with his children as hundreds of displaced return to the ruins of their homes in Khan Yunis.
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@washingtonpost
The Washington Post
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Jane Goodall has died at 91. Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. https://t.co/axM4A5nkhh
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@AFP
AFP News Agency
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The leader of the Unification Church was arrested Tuesday in South Korea over allegations of bribery linked to a former first lady. The Unification Church was founded in 1954 by Han's late husband Moon Sun-myung and has long been the subject of controversy
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@kingstonecomics
Kingstone Comics
2 months
“The U.S. Constitution” by U.S. Comics brings our founding document to life by describing the reasons behind each amendment and the rights those amendments protect for all Americans. Discover the 100-page graphic novel from U.S. Comics.
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@allyjung
Hawon Jung
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South Korea’s school lunches have gone viral on social media as a model for other countries. But the women workers who make them possible endure grueling conditions, often at the cost of their health and - in some cases - their lives. My latest column:
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koreatimes.co.kr
“Best lunch I’ve seen yet!” one user wrote under a TikTok video with 2.8 million views, the comment drawing nearly 1,000 likes. “I would eat this e...
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@TIME
TIME
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“Korean people have an indomitable will. Although there are many difficulties in front of us, I believe that we will be able to prevail.” South Korea’s President sits down with TIME in his only Western media interview since taking office https://t.co/zVRLgiEKt2
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@AFP
AFP News Agency
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A specially chartered flight carrying hundreds of South Korean workers detained in a US immigration raid last week has landed at Incheon International Airport. A protester at the airport held a sign reading: "You told us to invest, only to arrest us! Is this how you treat an
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@AFP
AFP News Agency
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🇰🇷 A South Korean court has acquitted a woman convicted six decades ago for defending herself against sexual violence, after she challenged the ruling inspired by the country’s #MeToo movement. ➡️ https://t.co/0YnLmGdNT0
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@yoolimleenews
Yoolim Lee
1 month
The recent shock immigration raid at a Hyundai-LG plant in Georgia spotlights a longstanding issue between South Korea and the US: the persistent disconnect between investment and visa policy https://t.co/6qL5TskVDe
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bloomberg.com
President Donald Trump has built his economic pitch on forcing foreign companies to bring jobs and production to the US. Last week’s shock immigration raid at a Hyundai Motor Co.-LG Energy Solution...
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@AFP
AFP News Agency
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Trump warns foreign companies to obey US law after immigration officials arrested some 475 individuals including South Korean workers at a Hyundai-LG battery plant https://t.co/6xry3nPDus
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@AFP
AFP News Agency
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South Koreans suspected of working in the US illegally were the majority of 475 people arrested in a raid on a Hyundai-LG battery plant in the state of Georgia, a US official said. It was the largest single site raid of Trump's anti-migrant drive. ➡️ https://t.co/OCt0Scj8IA
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@nytimes
The New York Times
1 month
The U.S. tried to plant a surveillance device in North Korea in 2019. Here's how the risky operation fell apart.
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nytimes.com
The 2019 operation, greenlit by President Trump, sought a strategic edge. It left unarmed North Koreans dead.
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@SuzeBPark
Susanne B. Park
1 month
Danish Korean band Meejah returns to Seoul with requiem confronting Korea's adoption past “I also see it as a maternal requiem — giving single mothers their rights back and taking away the stigma they’ve faced” says band leader Mai Soon Young Ovlisen. https://t.co/LHhfxbYCHc
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koreatimes.co.kr
For post-rock modern band Meejah, Seoul always holds a special place. Band leader Mai Soon Young Ovlisen, an adoptee raised in Denmark, first made...
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@Reuters
Reuters
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un brought his teenage daughter to Beijing in her first public outing overseas, fueling further speculation she may be his potential successor in the family’s dynastic rule over the nuclear-armed state https://t.co/oHT2N9uHPB
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@AFP
AFP News Agency
1 month
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin flanked Xi Jinping at a massive parade in Beijing on Wednesday, capping a week of diplomatic grandstanding by the Chinese president and his allies against the West https://t.co/cxkr4kDvyI
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@allyjung
Hawon Jung
2 months
Severe social stigma against unwed mothers has been cited as a reason behind South Korea's low birthrate woes. But in a sign of changing public attitudes, births out of wedlock have steadily increased in recent yrs, reaching 5.8% of all childbirths in 2024. https://t.co/rhCC8lg0oL
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en.yna.co.kr
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Yonhap) -- The proportion of births outside of marriage reached an all-tim...
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@hyungjin1972
Hyung-jin Kim / 김형진
2 months
Trump's initial warning to South Korea's Lee turns into warm welcome after flattery https://t.co/aacAkAad0X
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@BuildingHomes4H
Building Homes for Heroes
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On 9/11, Building Homes for Heroes, @HighlandHomesTX, and @HillwoodComm presented our 433rd home to Ret. CSM Gretchen Evans & Ret. Navy Chaplain Bob Evans, who once oversaw more than 30,000 troops in Afghanistan before her career-ending combat injury. Her story of resilience
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@AFP
AFP News Agency
2 months
#UPDATE US President Donald Trump said Monday he hoped again to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un as he fired off an extraordinary attack against the South's leader hours before their Oval Office meeting. https://t.co/FV0T8ucvdo by @shauntandon
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@shauntandon
Shaun Tandon
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Trump blunt language with Lee on sensitive SKorea-Japan history. Says of Koreans, "All they wanted to talk about was comfort women." The Japanese, "They want to get on, but Korea was very stuck on that."
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@dannyctkemp
Danny Kemp
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South Korean President Lee, who apparently got the memo, to Trump: "I heard that you recently redecortated the Oval Office, and I would like to say it looks very bright and beautiful and it symbolizes the new future and prosperity of America'
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