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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Per Yonhap: April 10, SEOUL, South Korea — A female university student has her head shaved in Seoul on April 10 in a protest rally organized by student leaders to demand the government reduce tuition fees.
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1900 — Hanseong Electric, the country’s first electric energy producer, which was established two years earlier, installs street lights for the first time in Jongno, the central district of Seoul, where the royal palaces of the Joseon Dynasty were located. 1919 — The Provisional Government of Korea, established in Shanghai earlier to restore their homeland’s [...]
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Protesters gathered in downtown Seoul yesterday to burn effigies of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and express outrage over his country’s rocket launch on Sunday. Most were older military retirees. The common sentiment was disgust over the fact that the North can’t feed a majority of its people but it has the gall to [...]
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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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A story in the Korea Times reports on sweeping arrests made in one of Seoul’s more notorious red-light districts, Jangan-dong, where police apprehended over a hundred sex workers and their clients, as well as over a ton of contraband. Since then, police have arrested six pimps and booked roughly 157 sex workers and customers. It [...]
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Amnesty Criticizes Rights Violations The Korea Times Amnesty International called on the Korean government to thoroughly investigate “excessive use of force” by police against anti-American beef import demonstrators, expressing concern over human rights violations. Former LMB advisor takes over YTN Hankyoreh Apparently he was approved in less than a minute by shareholders, while union members [...]
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There’s a communication barrier separating Koreans and Westerners that goes well beyond language. It’s a gulf that lies at the core of how we view the world, and often prevents any kind of mutual understanding. For the majority of us Westerners logic forms the basis of our understanding. If it doesn’t stand up to reason [...]
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