South Korean government’s mantra to protect lives in the name of the public health crisis restricted the right to peacefully protest for Koreans, raising a question on whether the government’s duty to protect lives should supersede a duty to protect civil rights.
A government-led, collaborative effort has prevented a possible 40 percent loss of already largely diminished organic farmer population in South Korea amid corona pandemic.
LAFAYETTE, INDIANA — Seven years ago, while Keyonta Williamson was heading home after a visit to his friend’s house in suburb Chicago, a group of white patrol officers stopped him. Williamson, then 18-year-old wearing a white tank top and camouflage shorts with reggae hair, wasn’t briefed why he was stopped. Soon, he was pushed on […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — Thirty-two years ago, involuntarily laid-off Jeon Gun-seob rejected his older siblings’ offer to live in their house. And, with an impaired left leg, he limped to the Seoul Train Station. Since then, his everyday night job has been to find a seemingly warmest spot to sleep in- and outside the station, along […]
CHEONGNYANGNI, SEOUL – The 2018 Korean Thanksgiving Day was on Sept. 24. It’s a long-waited season for many Korean grandparents – as they rarely get to see their adult sons and daughters swamped with their busy everyday life in one of most fast-pacing countries in the world. Cheongnyangni station, a major train hub in South […]
On February 18, a day after the 2018 Chinese New Year, at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a lone 25-year-old man was being pushed away by many Chinese tourists streaming from the security check point. With a pocket-sized, fancy leather notebook and a Japanese-imported pencil in his dried hands, he was trying to write a […]
NORYANGJIN, SEOUL – Noryangjin Goshichon, or “Exam Village,” is a land of hope. It is a congested, dull neighborhood in a middle of Seoul where its residents hope they could get out as soon as possible, hopefully with an outcome. Located just south of Han River, it is a place that break times are discouraged, […]
PAJU, SOUTH KOREA — On a drizzling Monday morning in mid-November, about 240 men in saggy, camouflage suits hustled themselves into the gate engraved with the sign in Korean — “Strong Republic of Korea Reserve Forces, Strong Korea!” It was a training day for South Korean reserve forces. All reserve soldiers must complete about three-day […]
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — 5 p.m., Tuesday at the Gwanghwamun Square. Thousands of South Koreans filled about 2400-feet-long, 110-feet-wide square with two, polarized shout-outs in English. “We love Trump!” “War no! Peace yes!” The square, which’s few miles away from the Blue House that two leaders of the United States and South Korea discussed North […]
On March 18, 2010, a 17-year-old boy felt lost, sweating indefinitely under mid 60-degree weather in his room in Northampton, Pennsylvania. The boy was trying to do a final edit on his first ever newspaper for his high school. From the start to the finish, he did it all by himself: He tried to write, […]
Journalism Blog By Sean Na 