According to the Hankyoreh Seoul’s policy of witholding rice aid to North Korea is driving down the price of of the grain, prompting thousands of farmers to take to the streets in protest. Approximately 30 thousand South Korean farmers convened together for a National Farmers’ Convention to ask the government to address plummeting rice prices [...]
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The first image comes from the liberal Hankyoreh, with the headline “Police prevent families of protest victims from identifying loved ones.” The second image is from the more conservative JoongAng, which reports, “Court keeps 5 in custody for fire that took 6 lives.” The two papers have been reporting on the deadly fire that broke [...]
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The Hankyoreh has an article on how the government has increasingly relied on its commando units to suppress civic dissent. Per the article: Park Rae-gun of the SARANGBANG Group for Human Rights said, “The fact that the police commando unit is being deployed to places like the sites of worker strikes itself shows the government’s [...]
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As Seoul’s first snow this winter is already turning black, I find myself pondering the quirks of a language I have resolved — again — to learn. I’m essentially at a very rudimentary level of Korean, which allows for basic communication with a lot of umms and ahhs and jerky hand gestures thrown in for [...]
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There’s so much frenetic energy here in Seoul, constant movement and tension as the country’s politics, religion and economy collide amidst a backdrop of smog, traffic and soju. It’s palpable on the street, as if charged by the humidity in the air. The standoff between the administration and Jogye Temple, headquarters of the country’s largest [...]
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After eighteen days of relative quiet, at least as far as candle light vigils go, protesters reappeared in Seoul’s Jongro area on Thursday to protest Korea’s importation of US beef. Police in riot gear clashed with what the Hankyoreh says was a crowd of over ten thousand as Korea commemorated the 60th anniversary of its [...]
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